Waning
Gibbous ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 68% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 68% and getting smaller. The 20 days old Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 6 days on 17 June 2019 at 08:31.
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 ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1888".
Strawberry Moon before 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2019 after 23 days on 16 July 2019 at 21:38.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 25 June 2019 at 09:46
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 2 July 2019 at 19:16
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 9 July 2019 at 10:55
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 16 July 2019 at 21:38
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 240 / 1193
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 240 of Meeus index or 1193 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.38 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 14 minutes. It is 1 hour and 18 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the 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 3 hours and 30 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 39 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠296.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠296.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠321.4°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 07:50. It is 15 days after previous perigee on 7 June 2019 at 23:21 in ♌ Leo. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 11 days, until point of next perigee on 5 July 2019 at 04:54 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 404 549 km
This apogee Moon is 404 549 km (251 375 mi) away from Earth. It is 859 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 160 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
4 days after descending node on 19 June 2019 at 01:49 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 3 July 2019 at 06:53 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
17 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 18 June 2019 at 15:33 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.381°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.379° at the point of next northern standstill on 2 July 2019 at 22:02 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 9 days
In 9 days on 2 July 2019 at 19:16 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.
