Waning
Gibbous ♌ Leo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 78% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 78% and getting smaller. The 19 days old Moon is in ♌ Leo.
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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 27 November 2042 at 06:06.
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 passing about ∠6° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1860"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1860" and ∠1946".
Beaver Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2042 after 25 days on 26 December 2042 at 17:43.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 4 December 2042 at 09:19
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 12 December 2042 at 14:29
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 20 December 2042 at 00:28
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 26 December 2042 at 17:43
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 530 / 1483
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 530 of Meeus index or 1483 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.75 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 1 minute. It is 1 hour and 37 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 17 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 46 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠201.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠201.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠232°.
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 25 November 2042 at 22:40 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 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 8 December 2042 at 00:37 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 385 270 km
The Moon is 385 270 km (239 396 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 435 km (251 926 mi).
Moon before descending node
7 days after ascending node on 24 November 2042 at 01:03 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 7 December 2042 at 05:37 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
7 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
2 days since the previous standstill on 29 November 2042 at 03:21 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.344°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.294° at the point of next southern standstill on 13 December 2042 at 13:29 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 12 December 2042 at 14:29 in ♐ Sagittarius 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.
