Waning
Gibbous ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 93% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 93% 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 11 October 2049 at 02:53.
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 ∠21° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1850"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1850" and ∠1924".
Hunter Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2049 after 27 days on 9 November 2049 at 15:38.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 18 October 2049 at 17:55
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 26 October 2049 at 16:15
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 2 November 2049 at 16:19
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 9 November 2049 at 15:38
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 615 / 1568
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 615 of Meeus index or 1568 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 10 minutes. It is 49 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 1 hour and 26 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 37 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠241.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠241.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠278.3°.
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 7 October 2049 at 21:10 in ♒ Aquarius. 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 19 October 2049 at 18:32 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 387 516 km
The Moon is 387 516 km (240 791 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 430 km (251 301 mi).
Moon before descending node
12 days after ascending node on 1 October 2049 at 11:18 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 14 October 2049 at 06:20 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
10 days since the previous standstill on 2 October 2049 at 17:46 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.422°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.344° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 October 2049 at 15:55 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 13 days
In 13 days on 26 October 2049 at 16:15 in ♎ Libra 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.
