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 99% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 15 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 ∠23° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 2 September 2077 at 17:23.

Harvest Moon before 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2077 after 28 days on 2 October 2077 at 01:20.

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 ∠1971"

Lunar disc appears visually 3.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1903".

Lunation 960 / 1913

The Moon is 15 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 960 of Meeus index or 1913 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.65 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 35 minutes and it is 1 hour and 39 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 51 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 12 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠146°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠146° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠171°.

Moon at perigee

Moon is at perigee at 12:31 about 12 days since last apogee on 21 August 2077 at 22:11 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next apogee on 18 September 2077 at 06:17 in ♎ Libra.

Distance to Moon 357 963 km

This perigee Moon is 357 963 km (222 428 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 545 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 393 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.

Moon before ascending node

7 days after descending node on 26 August 2077 at 16:24 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 8 September 2077 at 05:17 in ♊ Gemini.

Moon after southern standstill

5 days since the last southern standstill on 29 August 2077 at 11:23 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.035° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.130° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 September 2077 at 00:42 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

22 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 13 days

In 13 days on 17 September 2077 at 05:53 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