Waning
Gibbous ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 95% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 95% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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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 19 August 2005 at 17:53.
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 ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1949"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1949" and ∠1897".
Sturgeon Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2005 after 27 days on 18 September 2005 at 02:01.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 26 August 2005 at 15:18
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 3 September 2005 at 18:45
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 11 September 2005 at 11:37
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 18 September 2005 at 02:01
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 69 / 1022
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 69 of Meeus index or 1022 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.65 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 41 minutes. It is 1 minute 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 57 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 6 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠181.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠181.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠205.9°.
Moon after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 19 August 2005 at 05:32 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 1 September 2005 at 02:35 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 367 776 km
The Moon is 367 776 km (228 525 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 210 km (252 407 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after descending node on 10 August 2005 at 07:53 in ♎ Libra. 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 22 August 2005 at 23:05 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
25 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
5 days since the previous standstill on 16 August 2005 at 03:16 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.409°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.476° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 August 2005 at 23:42 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 13 days
In 13 days on 3 September 2005 at 18:45 in ♍ Virgo 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.
