Waning Gibbous Moon
Waning Gibbous MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waning Gibbous in Aquarius

Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 77% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 19 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

The 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 phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♒ Aquarius

Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 15 June 2011 at 20:13.

Strawberry Moon before 4 days

Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2011 after 24 days on 15 July 2011 at 06:40.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1797"

Lunar disc appears visually 4.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1797" and ∠1888".

Lunation 141 / 1094

The Moon is 19 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 141 of Meeus index or 1094 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.49 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 51 minutes and it is 2 hours and 5 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit 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 53 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 16 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠248.4°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠248.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠283.1°.

Moon before apogee

8 days since point of perigee on 12 June 2011 at 01:42 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 24 June 2011 at 04:13 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 398 784 km

The Moon is 398 784 km (247 793 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 275 km (251 205 mi).

Moon after ascending node

4 days after ascending node on 15 June 2011 at 18:35 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 30 June 2011 at 04:14 in ♊ Gemini.

Moon after southern standstill

5 days since the last southern standstill on 15 June 2011 at 08:52 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.399° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.399° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 June 2011 at 17:46 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

4 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 10 days

In 10 days on 1 July 2011 at 08:54 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov