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 ♊ Gemini.
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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 27 October 2072 at 01:21.
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 ∠18° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1872"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1872" and ∠1933".
Hunter Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2072 after 26 days on 25 November 2072 at 16:59.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 3 November 2072 at 11:16
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 10 November 2072 at 04:21
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 17 November 2072 at 16:03
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 25 November 2072 at 16:59
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 900 / 1853
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 900 of Meeus index or 1853 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 26 minutes. It is 2 hours and 12 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 18 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 51 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠21.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠21.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠41.4°.
Moon after apogee
7 days after point of apogee on 22 October 2072 at 14:16 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 7 November 2072 at 14:09 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 382 800 km
The Moon is 382 800 km (237 861 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 640 km (226 577 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after descending node on 22 October 2072 at 09:49 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 5 November 2072 at 06:42 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
21 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
13 days since the previous standstill on 17 October 2072 at 04:56 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.728°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠18.845° at the point of next northern standstill on 31 October 2072 at 19:37 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 10 November 2072 at 04:21 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.
