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 81% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 19 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 ∠14° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 10 July 2082 at 03:10.

Buck Moon before 4 days

Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2082 after 25 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 ∠1789"

Lunar disc appears visually 5.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1789" and ∠1888".

Lunation 1020 / 1973

The Moon is 19 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

9 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 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 17 July 2082 at 16:24 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 400 712 km

The Moon is 400 712 km (248 991 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 169 km (251 139 mi).

Moon after ascending node

1 day after ascending node on 13 July 2082 at 02:53 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 27 July 2082 at 09:04 in ♌ Leo.

Moon after southern standstill

6 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 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.898° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 July 2082 at 18:54 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

1 day 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 11 days

In 11 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