Waning Gibbous on

Moon phase on 31 October 2053 Friday is Waning Gibbous, 19 days old Moon is in Cancer.

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Lunar calendar 2053 | October 2053

Waning Gibbous phase
Waning Gibbous phase
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.

Waning Gibbous 80% illuminated

Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 80% and getting smaller. The 19 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 27 October 2053 at 10:38.

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 is entering ♋ Cancer

Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1966"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1933".

Hunter Moon before 4 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2053 after 25 days on 25 November 2053 at 22:21.

Upcoming main Moon phases

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 665 / 1618

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 665 of Meeus index or 1618 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.58 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 2 minutes. It is 2 hours and 43 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the 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 1 hour and 18 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 45 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit position on

True anomaly ∠71.2°

At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠71.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠106.8°.

Moon at perigee

Moon is at perigee at 10:02. It is 12 days after previous apogee on 19 October 2053 at 07:14 in ♑ Capricorn. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 15 days, until point of next apogee on 16 November 2053 at 03:37 in ♑ Capricorn.

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Distance to Moon 368 005 km

This perigee Moon is 368 005 km (228 668 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 497 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 2 351 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.

Moon before ascending node

7 days after descending node on 23 October 2053 at 18:33 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 5 November 2053 at 16:13 in ♍ Virgo.

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Draconic month

21 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.

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Moon at northern standstill

At 15:02 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠18.541°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-18.637° at the point of next standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 14 November 2053 at 03:32.

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Syzygy in 9 days

In 9 days on 10 November 2053 at 10:55 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.

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