Waning
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 89% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 89% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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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 10 September 2022 at 09:59.
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 ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1847"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1847" and ∠1907".
Harvest Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2022 after 26 days on 9 October 2022 at 20:55.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 17 September 2022 at 21:52
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 25 September 2022 at 21:54
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 3 October 2022 at 00:14
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 9 October 2022 at 20:55
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 280 / 1233
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 280 of Meeus index or 1233 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.57 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 37 minutes. It is 43 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 53 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 10 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠230.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠230.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠265.5°.
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 7 September 2022 at 18:17 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 19 September 2022 at 14:44 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 388 010 km
The Moon is 388 010 km (241 098 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 556 km (251 379 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after descending node on 1 September 2022 at 21:12 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 14 September 2022 at 14:49 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
26 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 before northern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 5 September 2022 at 13:56 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.219°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.316° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 September 2022 at 22:10 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 25 September 2022 at 21:54 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.
