Waning
Gibbous ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 94% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 94% and getting smaller. The 17 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 31 October 2039 at 22:36.
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 ∠9° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1771"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1771" and ∠1935".
Hunter Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2039 after 27 days on 30 November 2039 at 16:49.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 9 November 2039 at 03:46
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 16 November 2039 at 05:46
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 22 November 2039 at 21:17
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 30 November 2039 at 16:49
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 492 / 1445
The Moon is 17 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 492 of Meeus index or 1445 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.44 days
Length of current 492 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 37 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2039. It is 9 minutes shorter than next lunation 493 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 7 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 2 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠321.1°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠321.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠340.7°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before apogee
14 days after point of perigee on 20 October 2039 at 05:11 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next apogee on 5 November 2039 at 04:29 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 404 681 km
Moon is 404 681 km (251 457 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next day until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 534 km (251 987 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♊ Gemini at 19:55 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from South to North. Moon will follow the northern part of its orbit for the next 14 days to meet descending node on 17 November 2039 at 12:34 in ♐ Sagittarius.
New draconic month
At 19:55 on this date the Moon is completing its previous draconic month and is entering the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
11 days after previous South standstill on 23 October 2039 at 01:02 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-25.344°. Next 2 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠25.428° in the next northern standstill on 6 November 2039 at 03:44 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 12 days
After 12 days on 16 November 2039 at 05:46 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.