Waning
Gibbous ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 87% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 87% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days 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 ♈ Aries
Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1972"
Lunar disc appears visually 4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1894".
Sturgeon Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2006 after 26 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 18 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 after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 10 August 2006 at 18:27 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 13 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 26 August 2006 at 01:23 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 363 552 km
The Moon is 363 552 km (225 901 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 13 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 271 km (252 445 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♓ Pisces at 01:31 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 25 August 2006 at 21:34 in ♍ Virgo.
New draconic month
At 01:31 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
6 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 6 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 11 days
In 11 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.
