Waning
Gibbous ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 76% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 76% and getting smaller. The 19 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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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 3 October 2066 at 12:25.
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 passing about ∠14° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1778"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1778" and ∠1921".
Hunter Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2066 after 24 days on 2 November 2066 at 02:13.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 11 October 2066 at 09:43
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 19 October 2066 at 01:42
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 25 October 2066 at 20:52
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 2 November 2066 at 02:13
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 825 / 1778
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 825 of Meeus index or 1778 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.5 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 55 minutes. It is 32 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 49 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 20 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠272.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠272.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠304.7°.
Moon before perigee
10 days after point of perigee on 27 September 2066 at 12:48 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 10 October 2066 at 18:32 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 403 090 km
The Moon is 403 090 km (250 469 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 214 km (251 167 mi).
Moon before descending node
11 days after ascending node on 26 September 2066 at 15:21 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 10 October 2066 at 02:19 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
11 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 at northern standstill
At 22:14 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠24.153°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-24.054° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 22 October 2066 at 18:58.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 19 October 2066 at 01:42 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.
