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Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 61% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 61% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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Moon phase and lunation details
7 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 7 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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♈ Aries later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1780"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1780" and ∠1887".
Strawberry Moon before 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2010 after 22 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
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 129 / 1082
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 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 after apogee
2 days after point of apogee on 1 July 2010 at 10:12 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 9 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 13 July 2010 at 11:21 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 402 761 km
Moon is 402 761 km (250 264 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 9 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 361 116 km (224 387 mi).
Moon after ascending node
6 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 7 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
6 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
8 days after previous South standstill on 25 June 2010 at 05:09 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-25.038°. Next 6 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 8 days
After 8 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.