Waning
Gibbous ♓ Pisces
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 ♓ 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 9 August 2006 at 10:54.
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 ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1967"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1967" and ∠1893".
Sturgeon Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2006 after 28 days on 7 September 2006 at 18:42.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 16 August 2006 at 01:51
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 23 August 2006 at 19:10
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 31 August 2006 at 22:56
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 7 September 2006 at 18:42
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 81 / 1034
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 81 of Meeus index or 1034 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.61 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 39 minutes. It is 1 hour and 56 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 55 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 8 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠131.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠131.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠158.8°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 18:27. It is 12 days after previous apogee on 29 July 2006 at 13:02 in ♍ Virgo. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 15 days, until point of next apogee on 26 August 2006 at 01:23 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 359 755 km
This perigee Moon is 359 755 km (223 541 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 753 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 10 601 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
11 days after descending node on 29 July 2006 at 16:58 in ♍ Virgo. 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 12 August 2006 at 01:31 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
25 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 6 August 2006 at 04:11 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.594°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.645° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 August 2006 at 19:43 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 13 days
In 13 days on 23 August 2006 at 19:10 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.
