Waning
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 96% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 96% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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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 26 June 2010 at 11:30.
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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1782"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1782" and ∠1887".
Strawberry Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2010 after 27 days on 26 July 2010 at 01:37.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 4 July 2010 at 14:35
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 11 July 2010 at 19:40
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 18 July 2010 at 10:11
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 26 July 2010 at 01:37
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 129 / 1082
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 129 of Meeus index or 1082 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.35 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 26 minutes. It is 58 minutes longer 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 18 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 51 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠311.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠311.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠332.7°.
Moon before perigee
12 days after point of perigee on 15 June 2010 at 14:54 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 1 July 2010 at 10:12 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 402 212 km
The Moon is 402 212 km (249 923 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 036 km (251 678 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 27 June 2010 at 01:19 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 11 July 2010 at 07:30 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 25 June 2010 at 05:09 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.038°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.043° at the point of next northern standstill on 9 July 2010 at 16:50 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 13 days
In 13 days on 11 July 2010 at 19:40 in ♋ Cancer 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.
