Waning
Gibbous ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 93% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 93% and getting smaller. The 17 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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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 17 October 2081 at 20:50.
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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♊ Gemini later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1828"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1828" and ∠1928".
Hunter Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2081 after 27 days on 16 November 2081 at 13:19.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 25 October 2081 at 11:13
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 1 November 2081 at 03:04
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 8 November 2081 at 09:40
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 16 November 2081 at 13:19
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 1011 / 1964
The Moon is 17 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1011 of Meeus index or 1964 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.4 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 41 minutes. It is 1 hour and 51 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 3 hours and 3 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 6 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠12.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠12.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠29.7°.
Moon after apogee
5 days after point of apogee on 14 October 2081 at 14:03 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 30 October 2081 at 07:55 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 392 205 km
The Moon is 392 205 km (243 705 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 740 km (224 775 mi).
Moon after ascending node
6 days after ascending node on 14 October 2081 at 11:52 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 28 October 2081 at 09:25 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
6 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
12 days since the previous standstill on 8 October 2081 at 03:37 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.464°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.369° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 October 2081 at 20:04 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 1 November 2081 at 03:04 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.
