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

Waning Gibbous in Pisces

Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 90% 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 ♓ Pisces

Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 7 August 2036 at 02:49.

Sturgeon Moon before 3 days

Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2036 after 26 days on 5 September 2036 at 18:45.

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 ∠1794"

Lunar disc appears visually 5.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1794" and ∠1893".

Lunation 452 / 1405

The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 452 of Meeus index or 1405 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.3 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 18 minutes and it is 58 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 5 hours and 26 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 43 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠354.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠354.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠9.3°.

Moon after apogee

3 days since point of apogee on 6 August 2036 at 19:59 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 August 2036 at 04:27 in ♌ Leo.

Distance to Moon 399 545 km

The Moon is 399 545 km (248 266 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 819 km (222 338 mi).

Moon after descending node

3 days after descending node on 7 August 2036 at 06:48 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 20 August 2036 at 22:29 in ♌ Leo.

Moon after southern standstill

6 days since the last southern standstill on 4 August 2036 at 03:31 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.865° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.867° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 August 2036 at 10:50 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

17 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 21 August 2036 at 17:35 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