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 76% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 19 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 in ♋ Cancer

Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♌ Leo later.

5 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 14 November 2092 at 03:04.

Beaver Moon before 5 days

Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2092 after 24 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 ∠1784"

Lunar disc appears visually 8.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1784" and ∠1942".

Lunation 1148 / 2101

The Moon is 19 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 after apogee

2 days since point of apogee on 17 November 2092 at 00:09 in ♋ Cancer 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 29 November 2092 at 18:22 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 401 692 km

The Moon is 401 692 km (249 600 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 267 km (221 995 mi).

Moon before ascending node

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

Moon after northern standstill

1 day since the last northern standstill on 18 November 2092 at 03:46 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.732° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.787° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 December 2092 at 09:35 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

26 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 9 days

In 9 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