Waning
Gibbous ♊ Gemini
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 70% and getting smaller. The 20 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 11 September 2068 at 17:19.
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 passing first ∠0° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 0.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1920" and ∠1909".
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2068 after 24 days on 11 October 2068 at 01:39.
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.
The Moon is 20 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 849 of Meeus index or 1802 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 20 minutes. It is 1 hour and 9 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°).
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 36 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 27 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠160.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠183.9°.
4 days after point of perigee on 12 September 2068 at 00:17 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 26 September 2068 at 00:00 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 373 270 km (231 939 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 613 km (252 658 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♉ Taurus at 02:30 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 14 days later on 30 September 2068 at 14:29 in ♏ Scorpio.
12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
11 days since the previous standstill on 5 September 2068 at 09:10 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.990°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠20.889° at the point of next northern standstill on 17 September 2068 at 21:08 in ♊ Gemini.
In 9 days on 26 September 2068 at 10:48 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.