Waning
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 76% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 76% and getting smaller. The 19 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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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 2 September 2020 at 05:22.
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 ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1773"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1773" and ∠1905".
Harvest Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2020 after 24 days on 1 October 2020 at 21:05.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 10 September 2020 at 09:26
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 17 September 2020 at 11:00
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 24 September 2020 at 01:55
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 1 October 2020 at 21:05
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 255 / 1208
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 255 of Meeus index or 1208 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.35 days
Length of current 255 lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 19 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2020. It is 12 minutes shorter than next lunation 256 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 26 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 44 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠322.3°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠322.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠341.2°. 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 after apogee
1 day after point of apogee on 6 September 2020 at 06:31 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 11 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 18 September 2020 at 13:44 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 404 348 km
Moon is 404 348 km (251 250 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 11 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 359 081 km (223 123 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after its descending node on 27 August 2020 at 11:52 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 10 September 2020 at 23:05 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
23 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
9 days after previous South standstill on 28 August 2020 at 14:06 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-24.219°. Next 4 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠24.353° in the next northern standstill on 12 September 2020 at 05:25 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 9 days
After 9 days on 17 September 2020 at 11:00 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.