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

Waning Gibbous in Taurus

Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 70% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 20 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 ♉ Taurus

Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.

5 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 5 September 2036 at 18:45.

Harvest Moon before 5 days

Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2036 after 23 days on 5 October 2036 at 10:15.

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 ∠1886"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1886" and ∠1907".

Lunation 453 / 1406

The Moon is 20 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 453 of Meeus index or 1406 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.34 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 16 minutes and it is 1 hour 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 4 hours and 28 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 41 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠9.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠9.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠25.8°.

Moon before perigee

8 days since point of apogee on 3 September 2036 at 00:30 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 18 September 2036 at 12:38 in ♍ Virgo.

Distance to Moon 380 093 km

The Moon is 380 093 km (236 179 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 820 km (224 203 mi).

Moon before ascending node

7 days after descending node on 3 September 2036 at 12:59 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 17 September 2036 at 07:43 in ♌ Leo.

Moon before northern standstill

11 days since the last southern standstill on 31 August 2036 at 09:33 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.884° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.957° at the point of next northern standstill on 14 September 2036 at 18:44 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

21 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 8 days

In 8 days on 20 September 2036 at 01:51 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