Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 95% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 95% and getting smaller. The 17 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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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 26 November 2091 at 03:43.
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 is entering ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1803"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1803" and ∠1945".
Beaver Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2091 after 27 days on 25 December 2091 at 21:59.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 3 December 2091 at 22:55
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 10 December 2091 at 13:54
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 17 December 2091 at 17:29
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 25 December 2091 at 21:59
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 1136 / 2089
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 1136 of Meeus index or 2089 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 12 minutes. It is 1 hour and 31 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 2 hours and 32 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 37 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠4.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠4.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠20.8°.
Moon after apogee
4 days after point of apogee on 23 November 2091 at 23:32 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 9 December 2091 at 08:19 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 397 626 km
The Moon is 397 626 km (247 073 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 394 km (223 317 mi).
Moon before ascending node
10 days after descending node on 18 November 2091 at 04:24 in ♒ Aquarius. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 2 December 2091 at 18:52 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
22 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 22:15 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠19.417°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-19.452° at the point of next standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 11 December 2091 at 21:10.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 10 December 2091 at 13:54 in ♐ Sagittarius 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.
