Waning
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 89% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 89% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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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 7 September 2006 at 18:42.
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 ♈ Aries
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♉ Taurus later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1959"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1959" and ∠1906".
Harvest Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2006 after 26 days on 7 October 2006 at 03:13.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 14 September 2006 at 11:15
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 22 September 2006 at 11:45
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 30 September 2006 at 11:04
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 7 October 2006 at 03:13
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 82 / 1035
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 82 of Meeus index or 1035 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.69 days
Length of current 82 lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 35 minutes. It is 54 minutes shorter than next lunation 83 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 51 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 12 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠158.8°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠158.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠182.3°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 8 September 2006 at 03:07 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 11 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 22 September 2006 at 05:21 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 365 854 km
Moon is 365 854 km (227 331 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 11 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 500 km (252 587 mi).
Moon after ascending node
2 days after its ascending node on 8 September 2006 at 11:01 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 11 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 22 September 2006 at 03:42 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
2 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
7 days after previous South standstill on 2 September 2006 at 13:11 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.705°. Next 4 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.725° in the next northern standstill on 15 September 2006 at 01:28 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 11 days
After 11 days on 22 September 2006 at 11:45 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.