Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 87% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 87% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 27 October 2034 at 12:42.
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 ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1968"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1968" and ∠1933".
Hunter Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2034 after 26 days on 25 November 2034 at 22:32.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 3 November 2034 at 03:27
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 11 November 2034 at 01:16
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 19 November 2034 at 04:01
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 25 November 2034 at 22:32
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 430 / 1383
The Moon is 18 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 430 of Meeus index or 1383 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.74 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 44 minutes. It is 1 hour and 14 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 3 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠141.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠141.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠168.1°.
Moon after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 28 October 2034 at 10:16 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 12 November 2034 at 09:37 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 364 237 km
The Moon is 364 237 km (226 326 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 644 km (252 677 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after descending node on 24 October 2034 at 18:23 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 6 November 2034 at 10:15 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
20 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
12 days since the previous standstill on 18 October 2034 at 10:02 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.265°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠18.332° at the point of next northern standstill on 31 October 2034 at 08:54 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 11 November 2034 at 01:16 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.
