Waning
Gibbous ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 76% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 76% and getting smaller. The 19 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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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 2 October 2039 at 07:23.
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 ∠13° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1769"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1920".
Hunter Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2039 after 24 days on 31 October 2039 at 22:36.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 10 October 2039 at 08:59
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 17 October 2039 at 19:09
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 24 October 2039 at 11:50
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 31 October 2039 at 22:36
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 491 / 1444
The Moon is 19 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 491 of Meeus index or 1444 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 46 minutes. It is 9 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 58 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 11 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠294.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠294.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠321.1°.
Moon before perigee
14 days after point of perigee on 23 September 2039 at 02:18 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 8 October 2039 at 10:06 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 405 244 km
The Moon is 405 244 km (251 807 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 575 km (251 391 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♊ Gemini at 15:37 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 21 October 2039 at 04:37 in ♐ Sagittarius.
New draconic month
At 15:37 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 25 September 2039 at 19:27 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.118°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.247° at the point of next northern standstill on 9 October 2039 at 20:04 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 17 October 2039 at 19:09 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.
