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

Waning Gibbous in Aquarius

Waning Gibbous on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 97% and getting smaller. Lunar cycle is 16 days old.

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.

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♒ Aquarius

Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 18 July 2027 at 15:45.

Buck Moon before 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2027 after 27 days on 17 August 2027 at 07:29.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1770"

Lunar disc appears visually 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1888".

Lunation 340 / 1293

The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 340 of Meeus index or 1293 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.29 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 3 minutes and it is 33 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2027. 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 5 hours and 41 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 28 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠347.4°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠347.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠2.6°.

Moon after apogee

1 day since point of apogee on 19 July 2027 at 11:52 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 2 August 2027 at 06:28 in ♌ Leo.

Distance to Moon 404 912 km

The Moon is 404 912 km (251 601 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 362 km (222 054 mi).

Moon after ascending node

1 day after ascending node on 19 July 2027 at 23:33 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 2 August 2027 at 12:33 in ♌ Leo.

Moon after southern standstill

4 days since the last southern standstill on 15 July 2027 at 20:16 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.184° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.208° at the point of next northern standstill on 30 July 2027 at 05:47 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 12 days

In 12 days on 2 August 2027 at 10:05 in ♌ Leo 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