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Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 66% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 66% and getting smaller. The 20 days old Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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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 19 July 2016 at 22:57.
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 ♈ Aries
Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1964"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1964" and ∠1889".
Buck Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2016 after 23 days on 18 August 2016 at 09:27.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 26 July 2016 at 23:00
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 2 August 2016 at 20:45
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 10 August 2016 at 18:21
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 18 August 2016 at 09:27
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 204 / 1157
The Moon is 20 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 204 of Meeus index or 1157 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.41 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 44 minutes. It is 2 hours and 35 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 3 hours and 1 minute shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 9 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠48.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠48.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠77.9°.
Moon before apogee
12 days after point of apogee on 13 July 2016 at 05:24 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 27 July 2016 at 11:25 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 364 891 km
The Moon is 364 891 km (226 733 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 659 km (229 695 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after descending node on 23 July 2016 at 07:49 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 5 August 2016 at 07:48 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
16 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 18 July 2016 at 03:41 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.569°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.529° at the point of next northern standstill on 31 July 2016 at 04:53 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 2 August 2016 at 20:45 in ♌ Leo 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.
