Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 74% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 74% and getting smaller. The 19 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 12 October 2087 at 02:14.
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 ∠24° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1961"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1961" and ∠1925".
Hunter Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2087 after 25 days on 10 November 2087 at 12:05.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 18 October 2087 at 17:27
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 26 October 2087 at 11:29
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 3 November 2087 at 15:48
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 10 November 2087 at 12:05
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 1085 / 2038
The Moon is 19 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1085 of Meeus index or 2038 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.7 days
Length of current 1085 lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 43 minutes. It is 2 hours and 11 minutes shorter than next lunation 1086 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 59 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 4 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠129.7°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠129.7°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠158.4°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon after perigee
3 days after point of perigee on 13 October 2087 at 09:38 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 12 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 28 October 2087 at 19:16 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 365 602 km
Moon is 365 602 km (227 175 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 12 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 334 km (252 484 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after its descending node on 13 October 2087 at 21:45 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 11 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 27 October 2087 at 13:13 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
16 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon in northern standstill
At 04:13 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠20.085°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-20.046° in its southern standstill point on 30 October 2087 at 09:37 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 9 days
After 9 days on 26 October 2087 at 11:29 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.