Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 91% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 91% and getting smaller. The 17 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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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 1 November 2085 at 19:08.
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 ∠17° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1851"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1851" and ∠1935".
Beaver Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2085 after 26 days on 1 December 2085 at 08:10.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 9 November 2085 at 08:31
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 17 November 2085 at 08:20
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 24 November 2085 at 10:02
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 1 December 2085 at 08:10
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 1061 / 2014
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 1061 of Meeus index or 2014 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
Length of current 1061 lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 21 minutes. It is 1 hour and 3 minutes longer than next lunation 1062 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 37 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 26 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠234.1°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠234.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠271.2°. 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
5 days after point of perigee on 29 October 2085 at 23:49 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 10 November 2085 at 18:58 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 387 185 km
Moon is 387 185 km (240 586 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 6 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 585 km (251 397 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♊ Gemini at 22:57 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from North to South. Moon will follow the southern part of its orbit for the next 14 days to meet ascending node on 19 November 2085 at 09:10 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
12 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is moving from the middle to the last part of it.
Moon in northern standstill
At 14:11 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠23.345°. Next 14 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-23.309° in its southern standstill point on 19 November 2085 at 01:11 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 12 days
After 12 days on 17 November 2085 at 08:20 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.