Waning
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 97% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 97% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 21 September 2002 at 13:59.
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 ♈ Aries
Moon is passing about ∠21° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1912".
Harvest Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2002 after 27 days on 21 October 2002 at 07:20.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 29 September 2002 at 17:03
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 6 October 2002 at 11:17
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 13 October 2002 at 05:33
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 21 October 2002 at 07:20
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.
Lunation 33 / 986
The Moon is 16 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 33 of Meeus index or 986 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.34 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 7 minutes. It is 1 hour and 10 minutes shorter 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 4 hours and 37 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 32 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠343.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠343.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠358.6°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 03:26. It is 15 days after previous perigee on 8 September 2002 at 03:14 in ♍ Virgo. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 13 days, until point of next perigee on 6 October 2002 at 13:17 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 406 351 km
This apogee Moon is 406 351 km (252 495 mi) away from Earth. It is 943 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 358 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
10 days after descending node on 13 September 2002 at 03:39 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 27 September 2002 at 16:06 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
22 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 15 September 2002 at 05:34 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.377°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.530° at the point of next northern standstill on 30 September 2002 at 00:04 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 6 October 2002 at 11:17 in ♎ Libra 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.
