Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 97% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 97% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 25 November 2053 at 22:21.
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 ♊ Gemini
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1960"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1960" and ∠1945".
Beaver Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2053 after 27 days on 25 December 2053 at 09:23.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 2 December 2053 at 14:04
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 10 December 2053 at 03:40
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 18 December 2053 at 09:11
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 25 December 2053 at 09:23
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.
Lunation 666 / 1619
The Moon is 16 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 666 of Meeus index or 1619 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.7 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 45 minutes. It is 2 hours and 8 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 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 position on
True anomaly ∠106.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠106.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠141.1°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 23:02. It is 11 days after previous apogee on 16 November 2053 at 03:37 in ♑ Capricorn. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 16 days, until point of next apogee on 13 December 2053 at 21:20 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 362 464 km
This perigee Moon is 362 464 km (225 225 mi) away from Earth. It is 44 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 7 892 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
7 days after descending node on 19 November 2053 at 23:07 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 2 December 2053 at 16:41 in ♍ Virgo.
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.
Moon at northern standstill
At 23:44 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠18.707°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-18.771° at the point of next standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 11 December 2053 at 12:05.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 10 December 2053 at 03:40 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.
