Waning
Gibbous ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 94% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 94% and getting smaller. The 17 days old Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 9 August 2025 at 07:55.
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 ∠17° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1924"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1924" and ∠1893".
Sturgeon Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2025 after 27 days on 7 September 2025 at 18:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 16 August 2025 at 05:12
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 23 August 2025 at 06:06
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 31 August 2025 at 06:25
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 7 September 2025 at 18:09
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 316 / 1269
The Moon is 17 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 316 of Meeus index or 1269 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 55 minutes. It is 2 hours and 53 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 1 hour and 49 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 20 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠60.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠60.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠93°.
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of apogee on 1 August 2025 at 20:37 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 14 August 2025 at 18:01 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 372 614 km
The Moon is 372 614 km (231 532 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 287 km (229 464 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♓ Pisces at 14:53 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 24 August 2025 at 15:41 in ♍ Virgo.
New draconic month
At 14:53 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 5 August 2025 at 13:37 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.534°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.585° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 August 2025 at 15:59 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 23 August 2025 at 06:06 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.
