Waning Gibbous Moon
Waning Gibbous MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waning Gibbous in Aries

Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 94% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 17 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 ♈ Aries

Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 6 September 2017 at 07:03.

Harvest Moon before 2 days

Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2017 after 27 days on 5 October 2017 at 18:40.

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 ∠1907"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1907" and ∠1905".

Lunation 218 / 1171

The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 218 of Meeus index or 1171 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.46 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 1 minute and it is 2 hours and 42 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 44 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 25 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠49.5°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠49.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠79°.

Moon before perigee

9 days since point of apogee on 30 August 2017 at 11:25 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 13 September 2017 at 16:04 in ♊ Gemini.

Distance to Moon 375 956 km

The Moon is 375 956 km (233 608 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 856 km (229 818 mi).

Moon after descending node

3 days after descending node on 4 September 2017 at 18:41 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 17 September 2017 at 18:28 in ♌ Leo.

Moon before northern standstill

7 days since the last southern standstill on 1 September 2017 at 02:03 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.393° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.438° at the point of next northern standstill on 14 September 2017 at 13:00 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

18 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 11 days

In 11 days on 20 September 2017 at 05:30 in ♍ Virgo 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