Waning
Gibbous ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 85% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 85% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 2 July 2015 at 02:20.
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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1962"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1962" and ∠1887".
Buck Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2015 after 25 days on 31 July 2015 at 10:43.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 8 July 2015 at 20:24
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 16 July 2015 at 01:24
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 24 July 2015 at 04:04
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 31 July 2015 at 10:43
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 191 / 1144
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 191 of Meeus index or 1144 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.47 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 19 minutes. It is 2 hours and 10 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 25 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 44 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠78.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠78.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠112.8°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 18:54. It is 12 days after previous apogee on 23 June 2015 at 17:01 in ♍ Virgo. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 15 days, until point of next apogee on 21 July 2015 at 11:02 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 367 095 km
This perigee Moon is 367 095 km (228 102 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 587 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 3 261 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
10 days after ascending node on 24 June 2015 at 17:23 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 8 July 2015 at 00:07 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
10 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 1 July 2015 at 06:48 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.445°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.417° at the point of next northern standstill on 14 July 2015 at 04:24 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 16 July 2015 at 01:24 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.
