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 88% 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

Slide horizontally to discover the moon phase on nearby dates.

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon is entering ♓ Pisces

Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 10 July 2082 at 03:10.

Buck Moon before 3 days

Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2082 after 26 days on 8 August 2082 at 14:33.

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 ∠1804"

Lunar disc appears visually 4.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1804" and ∠1888".

Lunation 1020 / 1973

The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1020 of Meeus index or 1973 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.44 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 38 minutes and it is 1 hour and 14 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 2 hours and 6 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 3 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠265.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠265.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠298.1°.

Moon before apogee

8 days since point of perigee on 4 July 2082 at 20:11 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 17 July 2082 at 16:24 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 397 351 km

The Moon is 397 351 km (246 902 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 169 km (251 139 mi).

Moon in ascending node

Moon is in ascending node in ♒ Aquarius at 02:53 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 27 July 2082 at 09:04 in ♌ Leo.

Moon after southern standstill

5 days since the last southern standstill on 8 July 2082 at 10:27 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.861° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.898° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 July 2082 at 18:54 in ♊ Gemini.

New draconic month

At 02:53 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.

Syzygy in 12 days

In 12 days on 25 July 2082 at 15:54 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