Waning Gibbous Moon
Waning Gibbous MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waning Gibbous in Taurus

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 is entering ♉ Taurus

Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 12 September 2087 at 16:43.

Harvest Moon before 2 days

Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2087 after 26 days on 12 October 2087 at 02:14.

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 ∠1966"

Lunar disc appears visually 3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1908".

Lunation 1084 / 2037

The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1084 of Meeus index or 2037 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.57 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 39 minutes and it is 3 hours and 4 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 55 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 8 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠95.4°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠95.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠129.7°.

Moon at perigee

Moon is at perigee at 08:02 about 11 days since last apogee on 3 September 2087 at 11:42 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 1 October 2087 at 05:52 in ♏ Scorpio.

Distance to Moon 364 504 km

This perigee Moon is 364 504 km (226 492 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 996 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 5 852 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.

Moon before descending node

12 days after ascending node on 3 September 2087 at 03:54 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 16 September 2087 at 15:01 in ♉ Taurus.

Moon before northern standstill

9 days since the last southern standstill on 5 September 2087 at 19:29 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.343° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.239° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 September 2087 at 21:42 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 11 days

In 11 days on 26 September 2087 at 18:47 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