Waning Gibbous on

17 October 2016
Monday

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Moon phase on 17 October 2016 Monday is Waning

Gibbous, 16 days old Moon is in Taurus.

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Moon phase for

17 October 2016 Monday
12:00 UTC

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Waning Gibbous phase

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Waning Gibbous 97%

illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on 17 October
2016, Monday. Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction
of the Moon surface is 97% and getting smaller. The
16 days old Moon is in Taurus.

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Moon phase and lunation

details

1 day after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before
1 day on 16 October 2016 at 04:23.

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 Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠13° of Taurus tropical
zodiac sector.

Apparent angular diameter

∠ 1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.4% wider than solar
disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are
∠1973" and ∠1926".

Hunter Moon before 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November
2016 after 28 days on 14 November 2016 at 13:52.

Upcoming main Moon phases

Last Quarter in Cancer after 5 days on

22 October 2016 at 19:14

New Moon in Scorpio after 13 days on

30 October 2016 at 17:38

First Quarter in Aquarius after 21 days on

7 November 2016 at 19:51

Full Moon in Taurus after 28 days on

14 November 2016 at 13:52

Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and
Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at
very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is
moderate.

Lunation 207 / 1160

The Moon is 16 days old. Earth's natural satellite is
moving from the middle to the last part of current
synodic month. This is lunation 207 of Meeus index or
1160 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.73

days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and
27 minutes. It is 1 hour and 13 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 4 hours
and 43 minutes longer than the mean synodic month
length. It is 2 hours and 20 minutes shorter compared
to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit position on 17

October 2016 Monday
12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠ 144.6°

At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly
is ∠144.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month
the true anomaly is going to be ∠170.6°.

Moon after perigee

1 day after point of perigee on 16 October 2016 at
23:36 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 14 days, until the
Moon reaches the point of next apogee on
31 October 2016 at 19:29 in Scorpio.

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Distance to Moon 363 330 km

The Moon is 363 330 km (225 763 mi) away from
Earth and getting further over the next 14 days until
the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going
to be 406 660 km (252 687 mi).

Moon after descending node

4 days after descending node on 13 October 2016 at
09:43 in Pisces. The Moon is located south of the
ecliptic over the following 8 days, until the lunar orbit
crosses from South to North in ascending node on
26 October 2016 at 01:44 in Virgo.

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Draconic month
18 days since the beginning of current draconic
month in Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the
second to the final part of the cycle.

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Moon before northern standstill

9 days since the previous standstill on
8 October 2016 at 06:03 in Capricorn when the
Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.546°,
the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next
3 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.619° at
the point of next northern standstill on
20 October 2016 at 23:38 in Gemini.

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Syzygy in 13 days
In 13 days on 30 October 2016 at 17:38 in
Scorpio 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.

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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

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