Waning
Gibbous ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 89% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 89% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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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 22 July 2013 at 18:15.
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 ∠11° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1914"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1914" and ∠1889".
Buck Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2013 after 26 days on 21 August 2013 at 01:45.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 29 July 2013 at 17:43
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 6 August 2013 at 21:51
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 14 August 2013 at 10:56
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 21 August 2013 at 01:45
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 167 / 1120
The Moon is 18 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 167 of Meeus index or 1120 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.61 days
Length of current 167 lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 36 minutes. It is 51 minutes longer than next lunation 168 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 52 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 11 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠191.6°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠191.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠216.9°. 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 perigee
3 days after point of perigee on 21 July 2013 at 20:27 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 8 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 3 August 2013 at 08:53 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 374 432 km
Moon is 374 432 km (232 661 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 8 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 834 km (252 174 mi).
Moon before descending node
7 days after its ascending node on 17 July 2013 at 14:58 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 4 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 30 July 2013 at 05:50 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
7 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
5 days after previous South standstill on 20 July 2013 at 03:12 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-20.097°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠20.025° in the next northern standstill on 2 August 2013 at 09:24 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 12 days
After 12 days on 6 August 2013 at 21:51 in ♌ Leo, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.