Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 79% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 79% and getting smaller. The 19 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 23 October 2056 at 11:46.
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 ∠0° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1785"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1785" and ∠1932".
Hunter Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2056 after 24 days on 22 November 2056 at 06:12.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 31 October 2056 at 16:12
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 7 November 2056 at 12:20
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 14 November 2056 at 05:33
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 22 November 2056 at 06:12
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 702 / 1655
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 702 of Meeus index or 1655 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.39 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 20 minutes. It is 50 minutes shorter 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 24 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 45 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠337.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠337.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠353.9°.
Moon after apogee
2 days after point of apogee on 25 October 2056 at 20:58 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 7 November 2056 at 20:56 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 401 460 km
The Moon is 401 460 km (249 456 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 013 km (221 838 mi).
Moon before ascending node
13 days after descending node on 15 October 2056 at 06:24 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 29 October 2056 at 17:10 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
25 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
13 days since the previous standstill on 14 October 2056 at 21:56 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.495°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠22.641° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 October 2056 at 11:13 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 7 November 2056 at 12:20 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.
