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

Waning Gibbous in Pisces

Waning Gibbous on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 99% and getting smaller. Lunar cycle is 15 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 ♓ Pisces

Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 20 August 2043 at 15:04.

Sturgeon Moon before 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2043 after 28 days on 19 September 2043 at 01:47.

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 ∠1889"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1889" and ∠1897".

Lunation 539 / 1492

The Moon is 15 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 539 of Meeus index or 1492 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.45 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 55 minutes and it is 3 hours 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 49 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 20 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠57.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠57.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠88.7°.

Moon before perigee

8 days since point of apogee on 13 August 2043 at 08:32 in ♏ Scorpio 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 26 August 2043 at 13:38 in ♉ Taurus.

Distance to Moon 379 478 km

The Moon is 379 478 km (235 797 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 598 km (229 658 mi).

Moon before ascending node

12 days after descending node on 8 August 2043 at 16:43 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 22 August 2043 at 23:42 in ♓ Pisces.

Moon after southern standstill

5 days since the last southern standstill on 16 August 2043 at 03:37 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.600° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.661° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 August 2043 at 09:18 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

25 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 13 days

In 13 days on 3 September 2043 at 13:17 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