Waning
Gibbous ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 86% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 86% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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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 July 2025 at 20:37.
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 ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1912"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1912" and ∠1888".
Buck Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2025 after 25 days on 9 August 2025 at 07:55.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 18 July 2025 at 00:38
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 24 July 2025 at 19:11
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 1 August 2025 at 12:41
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 9 August 2025 at 07:55
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 315 / 1268
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 315 of Meeus index or 1268 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.36 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 40 minutes. It is 2 hours and 15 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 4 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 5 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠36.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠36.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠60.5°.
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of apogee on 5 July 2025 at 02:29 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 20 July 2025 at 13:52 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 374 819 km
The Moon is 374 819 km (232 902 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 047 km (228 694 mi).
Moon before ascending node
13 days after descending node on 1 July 2025 at 03:46 in ♍ Virgo. 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 15 July 2025 at 10:42 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
26 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 9 July 2025 at 06:03 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.423°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.474° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 July 2025 at 09:43 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 24 July 2025 at 19:11 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.
