Waning
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 94% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 94% and getting smaller. The 17 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 3 October 2047 at 23:42.
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 ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1920".
Hunter Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2047 after 27 days on 2 November 2047 at 16:58.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 12 October 2047 at 04:22
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 19 October 2047 at 03:28
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 25 October 2047 at 19:13
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 2 November 2047 at 16:58
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 590 / 1543
The Moon is 17 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 590 of Meeus index or 1543 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.37 days
Length of current 590 lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 57 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2047. It is 34 minutes shorter than next lunation 591 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 48 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 22 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠329.2°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠329.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠346.8°. 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 before apogee
14 days after point of perigee on 21 September 2047 at 15:28 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next apogee on 7 October 2047 at 08:53 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 405 373 km
Moon is 405 373 km (251 887 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next day until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 929 km (252 233 mi).
Moon before descending node
9 days after its ascending node on 27 September 2047 at 01:32 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 5 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 11 October 2047 at 12:21 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
9 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
11 days after previous South standstill on 25 September 2047 at 10:00 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-24.945°. Next 3 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠24.802° in the next northern standstill on 9 October 2047 at 18:12 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 12 days
After 12 days on 19 October 2047 at 03:28 in ♎ Libra, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.