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 89% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 18 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 ∠8° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 18 July 2046 at 00:55.

Buck Moon before 3 days

Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2046 after 26 days on 16 August 2046 at 14:50.

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 ∠1774"

Lunar disc appears visually 6.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1774" and ∠1888".

Lunation 575 / 1528

The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 575 of Meeus index or 1528 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.37 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 47 minutes and it is 47 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 3 hours and 57 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 12 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠304.9°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠304.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠328°.

Moon before apogee

13 days since point of perigee on 7 July 2046 at 18:06 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 23 July 2046 at 10:37 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 404 129 km

The Moon is 404 129 km (251 114 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 859 km (251 568 mi).

Moon after ascending node

2 days after ascending node on 18 July 2046 at 17:49 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 2 August 2046 at 00:47 in ♌ Leo.

Moon after southern standstill

6 days since the last southern standstill on 15 July 2046 at 09:24 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.722° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.730° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 July 2046 at 22:44 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 11 days

In 11 days on 2 August 2046 at 10:25 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