Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 72% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 72% and getting smaller. The 20 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 28 October 2042 at 19:48.
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 ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1893"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1893" and ∠1934".
Hunter Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2042 after 24 days on 27 November 2042 at 06:06.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 4 November 2042 at 15:51
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 12 November 2042 at 20:28
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 20 November 2042 at 14:31
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 27 November 2042 at 06:06
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 529 / 1482
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 529 of Meeus index or 1482 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.77 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 25 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2042. It is 24 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 41 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 22 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠177.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠177.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠201.7°.
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 28 October 2042 at 11:27 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 10 November 2042 at 12:15 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 378 611 km
The Moon is 378 611 km (235 258 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 245 km (252 429 mi).
Moon after ascending node
5 days after ascending node on 27 October 2042 at 16:01 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 10 November 2042 at 01:54 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
5 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 1 November 2042 at 17:22 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.455°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.390° at the point of next southern standstill on 16 November 2042 at 08:09 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 12 November 2042 at 20:28 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.
