Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 88% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 88% 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 9 November 2068 at 11:40.
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 ∠1° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1879"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1879" and ∠1939".
Beaver Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2068 after 26 days on 8 December 2068 at 23:42.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 16 November 2068 at 17:33
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 24 November 2068 at 21:42
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 2 December 2068 at 05:21
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 8 December 2068 at 23:42
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 851 / 1804
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 851 of Meeus index or 1804 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.73 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 25 minutes. It is 1 hour and 23 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 41 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 22 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠209.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠209.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠241.5°.
Moon after perigee
4 days after point of perigee on 7 November 2068 at 20:44 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 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 19 November 2068 at 19:10 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 381 433 km
The Moon is 381 433 km (237 011 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 230 km (251 798 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after descending node on 9 November 2068 at 19:59 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 24 November 2068 at 01:37 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
15 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 11 November 2068 at 15:07 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.651°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.658° at the point of next southern standstill on 26 November 2068 at 02:57 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 24 November 2068 at 21:42 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.
