Waning Gibbous Moon
Waning Gibbous MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waning Gibbous in Taurus

Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 99% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

The 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 phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♉ Taurus

Moon is passing about ∠10° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 18 October 2043 at 11:56.

Hunter Moon before 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2043 after 28 days on 16 November 2043 at 21:52.

Moderate tide

There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1963"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1963" and ∠1927".

Lunation 541 / 1494

The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 541 of Meeus index or 1494 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.7 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 45 minutes and it is 1 hour and 55 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).

Lunation length longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 1 minute longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 2 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠123.9°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠123.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠154°.

Moon at perigee

Moon is at perigee at 23:27 about 12 days since last apogee on 7 October 2043 at 22:24 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 16 days until point of next apogee on 4 November 2043 at 13:04 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 360 242 km

This perigee Moon is 360 242 km (223 844 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 266 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 10 114 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.

Moon after ascending node

2 days after ascending node on 16 October 2043 at 17:59 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 29 October 2043 at 13:05 in ♍ Virgo.

Moon before northern standstill

9 days since the last southern standstill on 9 October 2043 at 19:46 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.686° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.637° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 October 2043 at 21:04 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 13 days

In 13 days on 1 November 2043 at 19:57 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov