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Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 64% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 64% and getting smaller. The 20 days old Moon is in ♌ Leo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 6 days on 30 November 2039 at 16:49.
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 ♌ Leo
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1821"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1821" and ∠1948".
Beaver Moon before 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2039 after 23 days on 30 December 2039 at 12:37.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 8 December 2039 at 20:44
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 15 December 2039 at 16:32
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 22 December 2039 at 10:01
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 30 December 2039 at 12:37
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 493 / 1446
The Moon is 20 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 493 of Meeus index or 1446 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
Length of current 493 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 46 minutes. It is 7 minutes shorter than next lunation 494 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 58 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 11 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠340.7°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠340.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠356.9°. 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 after apogee
4 days after point of apogee on 2 December 2039 at 16:15 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 8 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 15 December 2039 at 20:51 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 393 698 km
Moon is 393 698 km (244 633 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 8 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 356 818 km (221 716 mi).
Moon after ascending node
6 days after its ascending node on 1 December 2039 at 02:11 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 7 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 14 December 2039 at 23:54 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
6 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
4 days after previous North standstill on 3 December 2039 at 10:32 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠25.474°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-25.464° in the next southern standstill on 16 December 2039 at 19:27 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 8 days
After 8 days on 15 December 2039 at 16:32 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.