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

Waning Gibbous in Cancer

Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 90% 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 ♋ Cancer

Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 14 November 2092 at 03:04.

Beaver Moon before 3 days

Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2092 after 26 days on 13 December 2092 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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1769"

Lunar disc appears visually 9.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1941".

Lunation 1148 / 2101

The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1148 of Meeus index or 2101 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.42 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 7 minutes and it is 27 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2092. 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 37 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 32 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠334°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠334° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠350.8°.

Moon at apogee

Moon is at apogee at 00:09 about 15 days since last perigee on 1 November 2092 at 08:57 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next perigee on 29 November 2092 at 18:22 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 406 114 km

This apogee Moon is 406 114 km (252 348 mi) away from Earth. It is 706 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 595 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.

Moon before ascending node

11 days after descending node on 6 November 2092 at 00:18 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 20 November 2092 at 09:44 in ♌ Leo.

Moon before northern standstill

13 days since the last southern standstill on 3 November 2092 at 23:31 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.608° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠20.732° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 November 2092 at 03:46 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

24 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 11 days

In 11 days on 29 November 2092 at 05:36 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.

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