Waning
Gibbous ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 78% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 78% and getting smaller. The 19 days old Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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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 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 in ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1887".
Strawberry Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2010 after 24 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 19 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
Length of current 129 lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 26 minutes. It is 58 minutes longer than next lunation 130 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 18 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 51 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠311.3°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠311.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠332.7°. 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 in apogee
Moon is reaching point of apogee on this date at 10:12, this is 15 days after last perigee on 15 June 2010 at 14:54 in ♋ Cancer. Lunar orbit is starting to get closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth for 11 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next perigee on 13 July 2010 at 11:21 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 405 036 km
This apogee Moon is 405 036 km (251 678 mi) away from Earth. It is 372 km farther than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 673 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
4 days after its ascending node on 27 June 2010 at 01:19 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 9 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 11 July 2010 at 07:30 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
4 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
6 days after previous South standstill on 25 June 2010 at 05:09 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-25.038°. Next 8 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠25.043° in the next northern standstill on 9 July 2010 at 16:50 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 10 days
After 10 days on 11 July 2010 at 19:40 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.