Waning
Gibbous ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
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 ♒ Aquarius.
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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 21 July 2005 at 11:00.
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 is entering ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1967"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1967" and ∠1889".
Buck Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2005 after 27 days on 19 August 2005 at 17:53.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 28 July 2005 at 03:19
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 5 August 2005 at 03:05
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 13 August 2005 at 02:39
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 19 August 2005 at 17:53
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 68 / 1021
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 68 of Meeus index or 1021 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.63 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 2 minutes. It is 39 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 18 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 45 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠158.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠158.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠181.9°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 21 July 2005 at 19:44 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 4 August 2005 at 21:49 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 364 409 km
The Moon is 364 409 km (226 433 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 631 km (252 669 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after descending node on 14 July 2005 at 06:35 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 26 July 2005 at 17:58 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
23 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 19 July 2005 at 17:52 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.265°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.311° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 August 2005 at 18:06 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 5 August 2005 at 03:05 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.
