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 60% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 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 is entering ♈ Aries

Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.

7 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 7 days on 29 June 2045 at 07:16.

Strawberry Moon before 7 days

Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2045 after 22 days on 28 July 2045 at 22:11.

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 ∠1802"

Lunar disc appears visually 4.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1802" and ∠1887".

Lunation 562 / 1515

The Moon is 21 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 562 of Meeus index or 1515 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.31 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 24 minutes and it is 13 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 20 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 49 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠328°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠328° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠345.4°.

Moon after apogee

3 days since point of apogee on 2 July 2045 at 18:04 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 July 2045 at 07:12 in ♌ Leo.

Distance to Moon 397 809 km

The Moon is 397 809 km (247 187 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 581 km (222 812 mi).

Moon after ascending node

3 days after ascending node on 3 July 2045 at 02:35 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 16 July 2045 at 11:05 in ♌ Leo.

Moon before northern standstill

8 days since the last southern standstill on 28 June 2045 at 04:19 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.699° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.744° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 July 2045 at 12:55 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

3 days 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 7 days

In 7 days on 14 July 2045 at 10:28 in ♋ Cancer 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