Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 85% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 85% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 21 October 2097 at 01:23.
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 ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing about ∠17° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1963"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1963" and ∠1930".
Hunter Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2097 after 26 days on 19 November 2097 at 13:03.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 27 October 2097 at 19:56
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 4 November 2097 at 02:08
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 12 November 2097 at 05:22
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 19 November 2097 at 13:03
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 1209 / 2162
The Moon is 18 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1209 of Meeus index or 2162 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.6 days
Length of current 1209 lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 23 minutes. It is 2 hours and 55 minutes shorter than next lunation 1210 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 39 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 24 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠76.4°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠76.4°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠112.4°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon in perigee
Moon is reaching point of perigee on this date at 15:32, this is 11 days after last apogee on 12 October 2097 at 16:09 in ♑ Capricorn. Lunar orbit is starting to get wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth for 16 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next apogee on 9 November 2097 at 12:12 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 367 167 km
This perigee Moon is 367 167 km (228 147 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 659 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 3 189 km farther than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
3 days after its ascending node on 21 October 2097 at 09:50 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 9 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 3 November 2097 at 09:02 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
3 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
12 days after previous South standstill on 12 October 2097 at 03:02 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-27.965°. Next day the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠27.974° in the next northern standstill on 25 October 2097 at 18:37 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 10 days
After 10 days on 4 November 2097 at 02:08 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.