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Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 60% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 60% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
Moon phases for next 7 days
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 26 September 2007 at 19:45.
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 ♊ Gemini
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1939"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1939" and ∠1917".
Harvest Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2007 after 23 days on 26 October 2007 at 04:52.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 3 October 2007 at 10:06
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 11 October 2007 at 05:01
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 19 October 2007 at 08:33
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 26 October 2007 at 04:52
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 95 / 1048
The Moon is 21 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 95 of Meeus index or 1048 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.68 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 16 minutes. It is 1 hour and 46 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 3 hours and 32 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 31 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠131.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠131.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠159.5°.
Moon after perigee
4 days after point of perigee on 28 September 2007 at 01:53 in ♈ Aries. 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 13 October 2007 at 09:53 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 369 690 km
The Moon is 369 690 km (229 715 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 491 km (252 582 mi).
Moon before descending node
7 days after ascending node on 25 September 2007 at 00:40 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 7 October 2007 at 20:03 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
7 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 10:23 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠28.296°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-28.194° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 16 October 2007 at 23:14.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 11 October 2007 at 05:01 in ♎ Libra 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.
