Waning Gibbous Moon
Waning Gibbous MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waning Gibbous in Gemini

Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 91% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 17 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

The 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 phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon is entering ♊ Gemini

Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 15 October 2092 at 10:25.

Hunter Moon before 3 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2092 after 26 days on 14 November 2092 at 03:04.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1773"

Lunar disc appears visually 8.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1773" and ∠1927".

Lunation 1147 / 2100

The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1147 of Meeus index or 2100 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.43 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 13 minutes and it is 6 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 31 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 38 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠312.2°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠312.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠334°.

Moon before apogee

14 days since point of perigee on 4 October 2092 at 11:15 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 20 October 2092 at 09:17 in ♊ Gemini.

Distance to Moon 404 268 km

The Moon is 404 268 km (251 200 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 238 km (251 803 mi).

Moon before ascending node

8 days after descending node on 9 October 2092 at 23:54 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 24 October 2092 at 08:18 in ♌ Leo.

Moon before northern standstill

10 days since the last southern standstill on 7 October 2092 at 16:31 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.361° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.498° at the point of next northern standstill on 21 October 2092 at 20:05 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

21 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 12 days

In 12 days on 30 October 2092 at 19:28 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov