Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 98% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 98% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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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 14 June 2003 at 11:16.
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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1931"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1931" and ∠1889".
Strawberry Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2003 after 28 days on 13 July 2003 at 19:21.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 21 June 2003 at 14:45
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 29 June 2003 at 18:39
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 7 July 2003 at 02:32
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 13 July 2003 at 19:21
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 42 / 995
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 42 of Meeus index or 995 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.6 days
Length of current 42 lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 19 minutes. It is 2 hours and 5 minutes longer than next lunation 43 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 35 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 28 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠205.5°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠205.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠234.1°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 12 June 2003 at 23:18 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 9 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 25 June 2003 at 02:25 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 371 218 km
Moon is 371 218 km (230 664 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 9 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 233 km (251 800 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after its descending node on 12 June 2003 at 21:16 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 11 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 26 June 2003 at 14:34 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
16 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon in southern standstill
At 13:28 on this date the Moon is meeting its South standstill point, when it will reach southern declination of ∠-26.477°. Next 14 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite northward direction to face North declination of ∠26.455° in its northern standstill point on 29 June 2003 at 21:14 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 14 days
After 14 days on 29 June 2003 at 18:39 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.