Waning
Gibbous ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 92% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 92% and getting smaller. The 17 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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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 2 October 2096 at 01:24.
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 in ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1970"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1919".
Hunter Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2096 after 26 days on 31 October 2096 at 11:16.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 8 October 2096 at 17:09
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 16 October 2096 at 06:28
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 24 October 2096 at 11:40
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 31 October 2096 at 11:16
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 1196 / 2149
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 1196 of Meeus index or 2149 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 18 minutes. It is 2 hours and 49 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 34 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 29 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠110.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠110.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠143.3°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 00:44. It is 11 days after previous apogee on 22 September 2096 at 03:15 in ♐ Sagittarius. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 15 days, until point of next apogee on 19 October 2096 at 20:10 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 362 187 km
This perigee Moon is 362 187 km (225 053 mi) away from Earth. It is 321 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 8 169 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♉ Taurus at 22:17 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 18 October 2096 at 14:16 in ♏ Scorpio.
New draconic month
At 22:17 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 25 September 2096 at 05:26 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.795°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.877° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 October 2096 at 03:20 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 16 October 2096 at 06:28 in ♎ Libra 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.
