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 96% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 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 ♊ Gemini

Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 11 November 2095 at 19:05.

Beaver Moon before 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2095 after 27 days on 11 December 2095 at 06:21.

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 ∠1936"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1936" and ∠1939".

Lunation 1185 / 2138

The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1185 of Meeus index or 2138 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.77 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 22 minutes and it is 52 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2095. 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 38 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 25 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠192.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠192.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠219.6°.

Moon after perigee

2 days since point of perigee on 10 November 2095 at 21:09 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 23 November 2095 at 06:05 in ♎ Libra.

Distance to Moon 370 289 km

The Moon is 370 289 km (230 087 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 873 km (252 198 mi).

Moon in ascending node

Moon is in ascending node in ♊ Gemini at 03:43 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 27 November 2095 at 10:29 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Moon before northern standstill

10 days since the last southern standstill on 2 November 2095 at 15:39 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.619° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠25.649° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 November 2095 at 06:31 in ♋ Cancer.

New draconic month

At 03:43 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.

Syzygy in 13 days

In 13 days on 27 November 2095 at 00:54 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.

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