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Quarter ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 66% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 66% and getting smaller. The 20 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 18 October 2032 at 18:58.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
Moon in ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1811"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1811" and ∠1930".
Hunter Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2032 after 23 days on 17 November 2032 at 06:42.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 26 October 2032 at 02:29
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 3 November 2032 at 05:45
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 10 November 2032 at 11:33
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 17 November 2032 at 06:42
Neap tide
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunation 405 / 1358
The Moon is 20 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 405 of Meeus index or 1358 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.68 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 19 minutes. It is 1 hour and 11 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 35 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 28 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠215.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠215.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠248.6°.
Moon before perigee
7 days after point of perigee on 16 October 2032 at 21:27 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 28 October 2032 at 18:22 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 395 753 km
The Moon is 395 753 km (245 910 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 007 km (251 660 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after descending node on 19 October 2032 at 02:27 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 2 November 2032 at 09:04 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
18 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 22 October 2032 at 20:01 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.051°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.070° at the point of next southern standstill on 6 November 2032 at 09:19 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 9 days
In 9 days on 3 November 2032 at 05:45 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
