Waning
Gibbous ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 96% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 96% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 19 October 2070 at 18:59.
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 ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1957"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1957" and ∠1928".
Hunter Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2070 after 27 days on 18 November 2070 at 05:40.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 26 October 2070 at 10:47
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 2 November 2070 at 22:42
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 11 November 2070 at 03:20
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 18 November 2070 at 05:40
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 875 / 1828
The Moon is 16 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 875 of Meeus index or 1828 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.65 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 41 minutes. It is 2 hours and 30 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 57 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 6 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠100.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠100.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠134.9°.
Moon before apogee
11 days after point of apogee on 10 October 2070 at 07:45 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 22 October 2070 at 03:04 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 366 297 km
The Moon is 366 297 km (227 606 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 541 km (225 894 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after descending node on 19 October 2070 at 01:49 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 31 October 2070 at 23:32 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
16 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 10 October 2070 at 08:55 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.377°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.400° at the point of next northern standstill on 23 October 2070 at 19:48 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 2 November 2070 at 22:42 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.
