Waning
Gibbous ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 85% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 85% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 12 August 2022 at 01:36.
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 ∠9° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1880"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1880" and ∠1895".
Sturgeon Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2022 after 25 days on 10 September 2022 at 09:59.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 19 August 2022 at 04:36
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 27 August 2022 at 08:17
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 3 September 2022 at 18:08
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 10 September 2022 at 09:59
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 279 / 1232
The Moon is 18 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 279 of Meeus index or 1232 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.6 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 22 minutes. It is 45 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 1 hour and 38 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 25 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠202°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠202°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠230.2°.
Moon after perigee
4 days after point of perigee on 10 August 2022 at 17:14 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 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 22 August 2022 at 21:53 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 381 221 km
The Moon is 381 221 km (236 880 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 419 km (251 916 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after descending node on 5 August 2022 at 20:30 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 18 August 2022 at 10:59 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
24 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
6 days since the previous standstill on 9 August 2022 at 06:36 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.024°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.100° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 August 2022 at 15:08 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 27 August 2022 at 08:17 in ♍ Virgo 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.
