Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 82% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 82% and getting smaller. The 19 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 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 is entering ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1769"
Lunar disc appears visually 9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1936".
Hunter Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2039 after 25 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 19 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
The length of the 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 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 2 hours and 7 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 2 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠321.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠321.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠340.7°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 04:29. It is 15 days after previous perigee on 20 October 2039 at 05:11 in ♏ Scorpio. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 11 days, until point of next perigee on 17 November 2039 at 09:19 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 405 534 km
This apogee Moon is 405 534 km (251 987 mi) away from Earth. It is 126 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 175 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 3 November 2039 at 19:55 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 17 November 2039 at 12:34 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
13 days since the previous standstill on 23 October 2039 at 01:02 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.344°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠25.428° at the point of next northern standstill on 6 November 2039 at 03:44 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 16 November 2039 at 05:46 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.
