Waning
Gibbous ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 95% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 95% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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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 13 July 2022 at 18:37.
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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠17° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1953"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1953" and ∠1888".
Buck Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2022 after 27 days on 12 August 2022 at 01:36.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 20 July 2022 at 14:18
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 28 July 2022 at 17:55
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 5 August 2022 at 11:06
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 12 August 2022 at 01:36
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 278 / 1231
The Moon is 16 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 278 of Meeus index or 1231 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.63 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 3 minutes. It is 41 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 19 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 44 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠178.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠178.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠202°.
Moon after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 13 July 2022 at 09:08 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 26 July 2022 at 10:22 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 367 070 km
The Moon is 367 070 km (228 087 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 276 km (252 448 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after descending node on 9 July 2022 at 17:28 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 22 July 2022 at 09:21 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
20 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 12 July 2022 at 21:16 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.921°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.941° at the point of next northern standstill on 26 July 2022 at 09:19 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 13 days
In 13 days on 28 July 2022 at 17:55 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.
