Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 85% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 85% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 8 November 2060 at 04:17.
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 ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠6° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1928"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1928" and ∠1939".
Beaver Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2060 after 26 days on 7 December 2060 at 14:48.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 14 November 2060 at 23:48
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 23 November 2060 at 04:16
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 30 November 2060 at 23:11
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 7 December 2060 at 14:48
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 752 / 1705
The Moon is 18 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 752 of Meeus index or 1705 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.78 days
Length of current 752 lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 50 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2060. It is 26 minutes longer than next lunation 753 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 6 hours and 6 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 57 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠174.6°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠174.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠199.1°. 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 after perigee
3 days after point of perigee on 7 November 2060 at 22:11 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 9 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 21 November 2060 at 01:49 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 371 736 km
Moon is 371 736 km (230 986 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 9 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 318 km (252 474 mi).
Moon after ascending node
4 days after its ascending node on 7 November 2060 at 00:56 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 8 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 20 November 2060 at 10:05 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
4 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon in northern standstill
At 10:15 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠28.098°. Next 14 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-28.046° in its southern standstill point on 25 November 2060 at 22:28 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 11 days
After 11 days on 23 November 2060 at 04:16 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.