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.
Moon phases for next 7 days
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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
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 21 minutes. It is 1 hour and 3 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 37 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 26 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠234.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠234.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠271.2°.
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 29 October 2085 at 23:49 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 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 10 November 2085 at 18:58 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 387 185 km
The Moon is 387 185 km (240 586 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 585 km (251 397 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♊ Gemini at 22:57 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 14 days later on 19 November 2085 at 09:10 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 14:11 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠23.345°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-23.309° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 19 November 2085 at 01:11.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 17 November 2085 at 08:20 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.
