Waning
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 96% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 96% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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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 5 October 2036 at 10:15.
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 ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1852"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1852" and ∠1921".
Hunter Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2036 after 27 days on 4 November 2036 at 00:44.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 12 October 2036 at 18:09
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 19 October 2036 at 11:50
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 27 October 2036 at 01:14
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 4 November 2036 at 00:44
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 454 / 1407
The Moon is 16 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 454 of Meeus index or 1407 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.42 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 58 minutes. It is 2 hours and 26 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 46 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 23 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠25.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠25.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠46.7°.
Moon after apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 30 September 2036 at 13:16 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 16 October 2036 at 12:04 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 387 084 km
The Moon is 387 084 km (240 523 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 813 km (227 306 mi).
Moon after descending node
6 days after descending node on 30 September 2036 at 17:36 in ♒ Aquarius. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 14 October 2036 at 12:21 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
20 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 27 September 2036 at 16:26 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.031°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.162° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 October 2036 at 00:39 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 19 October 2036 at 11:50 in ♎ Libra 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.
