Waning Gibbous on

Moon phase on 8 June 2001 Friday is Waning Gibbous, 17 days old Moon is in Capricorn.

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Lunar calendar 2001 | June 2001

Waning Gibbous phase
Waning Gibbous phase
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.

Waning Gibbous 94% illuminated

Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 94% and getting smaller. The 17 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.

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Moon phase and lunation details

2 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 6 June 2001 at 01:39.

Moonrise and moonset

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 in ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1788"

Lunar disc appears visually 5.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1788" and ∠1890".

Strawberry Moon before 2 days

Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2001 after 27 days on 5 July 2001 at 15:04.

Upcoming main Moon phases

  • Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 14 June 2001 at 03:28
  • New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 21 June 2001 at 11:58
  • First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 28 June 2001 at 03:20
  • Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 5 July 2001 at 15:04

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.

Lunation 17 / 970

The Moon is 17 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 17 of Meeus index or 970 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.38 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 12 minutes. It is 1 hour and 25 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the 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 32 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 37 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit position on

True anomaly ∠299.7°

At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠299.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠324.1°.

Moon before perigee

12 days after point of perigee on 27 May 2001 at 07:07 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 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 11 June 2001 at 19:48 in ♒ Aquarius.

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Distance to Moon 400 957 km

The Moon is 400 957 km (249 143 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 630 km (251 425 mi).

Moon after descending node

1 day after descending node on 7 June 2001 at 17:37 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 13 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 21 June 2001 at 22:11 in ♊ Gemini.

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Draconic month

13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.

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Moon at southern standstill

At 05:02 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-23.414°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠23.418° at the point of next standstill in ♋ Cancer on 22 June 2001 at 07:47.

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Syzygy in 12 days

In 12 days on 21 June 2001 at 11:58 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.

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