Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 87% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 87% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 19 November 2078 at 12:52.
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 ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1939"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1939" and ∠1943".
Beaver Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2078 after 26 days on 18 December 2078 at 23:34.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 26 November 2078 at 07:54
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 4 December 2078 at 12:08
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 12 December 2078 at 07:52
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 18 December 2078 at 23:34
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 975 / 1928
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 975 of Meeus index or 1928 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.8 days
Length of current 975 lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 12 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2078. It is 30 minutes longer than next lunation 976 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 6 hours and 28 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 35 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠172.1°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠172.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠196.6°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after perigee
3 days after point of perigee on 19 November 2078 at 08:57 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 2 December 2078 at 15:34 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 369 671 km
Moon is 369 671 km (229 703 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 10 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 382 km (252 514 mi).
Moon after ascending node
4 days after its ascending node on 18 November 2078 at 09:52 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 9 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 1 December 2078 at 18:16 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
4 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon in northern standstill
At 03:20 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠27.596°. Next 14 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-27.555° in its southern standstill point on 6 December 2078 at 12:06 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 12 days
After 12 days on 4 December 2078 at 12:08 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.