Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 98% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 98% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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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 14 June 2003 at 11:16.
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 ∠8° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1931"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1931" and ∠1889".
Strawberry Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2003 after 28 days on 13 July 2003 at 19:21.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 21 June 2003 at 14:45
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 29 June 2003 at 18:39
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 7 July 2003 at 02:32
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 13 July 2003 at 19:21
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 42 / 995
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 42 of Meeus index or 995 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.6 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 19 minutes. It is 2 hours and 5 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 35 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 28 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠205.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠205.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠234.1°.
Moon after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 12 June 2003 at 23:18 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 25 June 2003 at 02:25 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 371 218 km
The Moon is 371 218 km (230 664 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 233 km (251 800 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after descending node on 12 June 2003 at 21:16 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 26 June 2003 at 14:34 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
16 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 13:28 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-26.477°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠26.455° at the point of next standstill in ♋ Cancer on 29 June 2003 at 21:14.
Syzygy in 14 days
In 14 days on 29 June 2003 at 18:39 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.
