Waning
Gibbous ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 74% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 74% 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 20 June 2016 at 11:02.
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 ∠1923"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1923" and ∠1888".
Strawberry Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2016 after 24 days on 19 July 2016 at 22:57.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 27 June 2016 at 18:19
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 4 July 2016 at 11:01
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 12 July 2016 at 00:52
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 19 July 2016 at 22:57
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 203 / 1156
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 203 of Meeus index or 1156 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.33 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 1 minute. It is 1 hour and 43 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 4 hours and 43 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 26 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠27.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠27.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠48.9°.
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of apogee on 15 June 2016 at 12:00 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 1 July 2016 at 06:45 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 372 727 km
The Moon is 372 727 km (231 602 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 983 km (227 411 mi).
Moon before descending node
13 days after ascending node on 11 June 2016 at 22:20 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 26 June 2016 at 05:28 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
13 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 20 June 2016 at 18:52 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.610°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.598° at the point of next northern standstill on 3 July 2016 at 20:06 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 4 July 2016 at 11:01 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.
