Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 70% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 70% 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 3 October 2085 at 08:53.
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 ∠22° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1837"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1837" and ∠1921".
Hunter Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2085 after 24 days on 1 November 2085 at 19:08.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 10 October 2085 at 13:09
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 18 October 2085 at 17:00
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 26 October 2085 at 02:34
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 1 November 2085 at 19:08
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 1060 / 2013
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 1060 of Meeus index or 2013 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.66 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 53 minutes. It is 32 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 3 hours and 9 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 54 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠204.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠204.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠234.1°.
Moon before perigee
6 days after point of perigee on 1 October 2085 at 22:42 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 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 14 October 2085 at 00:42 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 390 228 km
The Moon is 390 228 km (242 476 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 393 km (251 900 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♊ Gemini at 17:26 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 14 days later on 23 October 2085 at 05:04 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 05:07 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠23.510°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-23.402° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 22 October 2085 at 19:20.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 18 October 2085 at 17:00 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.
