Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 87% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 87% 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 20 November 2067 at 23:50.
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 ∠14° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1794"
Lunar disc appears visually 8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1794" and ∠1944".
Beaver Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2067 after 26 days on 20 December 2067 at 15:41.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 28 November 2067 at 22:06
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 6 December 2067 at 14:05
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 13 December 2067 at 08:38
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 20 December 2067 at 15:41
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 839 / 1792
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 839 of Meeus index or 1792 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.58 days
Length of current 839 lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 51 minutes. It is 1 hour and 18 minutes longer than next lunation 840 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 7 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 56 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠274.8°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠274.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠307.7°. 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 before apogee
9 days after point of perigee on 14 November 2067 at 16:11 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 3 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 28 November 2067 at 03:30 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 399 428 km
Moon is 399 428 km (248 193 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 3 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 463 km (251 322 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after its descending node on 21 November 2067 at 22:58 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 11 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 6 December 2067 at 08:52 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
15 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
2 days after previous North standstill on 22 November 2067 at 11:11 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠22.275°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-22.279° in the next southern standstill on 6 December 2067 at 20:06 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 12 days
After 12 days on 6 December 2067 at 14:05 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.