Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 72% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 72% and getting smaller. The 20 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 12 October 2076 at 09:37.
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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1817"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1817" and ∠1926".
Hunter Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2076 after 24 days on 10 November 2076 at 21:07.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 19 October 2076 at 18:51
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 27 October 2076 at 20:50
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 4 November 2076 at 01:58
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 10 November 2076 at 21:07
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 949 / 1902
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 949 of Meeus index or 1902 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 23 minutes. It is 45 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 2 hours and 39 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 24 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠219.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠219.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠254.1°.
Moon before perigee
7 days after point of perigee on 10 October 2076 at 06:57 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 22 October 2076 at 03:11 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 394 452 km
The Moon is 394 452 km (245 101 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 879 km (251 580 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 16 October 2076 at 15:38 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 13 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 31 October 2076 at 02:13 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 5 October 2076 at 13:46 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.833°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠24.937° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 October 2076 at 10:01 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 27 October 2076 at 20:50 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.
