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Quarter ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 64% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 64% and getting smaller. The 20 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 6 days on 12 August 2003 at 04:48.
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 ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1770"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1896".
Sturgeon Moon before 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2003 after 23 days on 10 September 2003 at 16:36.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 20 August 2003 at 00:48
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 27 August 2003 at 17:26
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 3 September 2003 at 12:34
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 10 September 2003 at 16:36
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.
Lunation 44 / 997
The Moon is 20 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 44 of Meeus index or 997 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.44 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 34 minutes. It is 51 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 2 hours and 10 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 59 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠268.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠268.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠301°.
Moon before perigee
11 days after point of perigee on 6 August 2003 at 14:06 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 day, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 19 August 2003 at 14:22 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 404 947 km
The Moon is 404 947 km (251 622 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 102 km (251 097 mi).
Moon before ascending node
12 days after descending node on 6 August 2003 at 06:49 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 19 August 2003 at 21:08 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
25 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 before northern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 9 August 2003 at 06:19 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.553°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.649° at the point of next northern standstill on 23 August 2003 at 11:41 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 9 days
In 9 days on 27 August 2003 at 17:26 in ♌ Leo 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.
