Waning
Gibbous ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 99% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99% and getting smaller. The 15 days old Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 15 August 2019 at 12:29.
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 is entering ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1895".
Sturgeon Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2019 after 28 days on 14 September 2019 at 04:33.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 23 August 2019 at 14:56
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 30 August 2019 at 10:37
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 6 September 2019 at 03:10
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 14 September 2019 at 04:33
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 242 / 1195
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 242 of Meeus index or 1195 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.31 days
Length of current 242 lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 25 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2019. It is 24 minutes shorter than next lunation 243 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 19 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 50 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠340.5°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠340.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠356.3°. 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 before apogee
14 days after point of perigee on 2 August 2019 at 07:08 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next apogee on 17 August 2019 at 10:50 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 405 300 km
Moon is 405 300 km (251 842 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next day until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 244 km (252 428 mi).
Moon after descending node
3 days after its descending node on 12 August 2019 at 14:45 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 10 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 27 August 2019 at 01:50 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
16 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
4 days after previous South standstill on 12 August 2019 at 04:28 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-22.399°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠22.473° in the next northern standstill on 26 August 2019 at 17:53 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 13 days
After 13 days on 30 August 2019 at 10:37 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.