Waning
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 90% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 90% and getting smaller. The 17 days old Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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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 7 September 2025 at 18:09.
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 ∠25° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1964"
Lunar disc appears visually 3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1964" and ∠1906".
Harvest Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2025 after 26 days on 7 October 2025 at 03:47.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 14 September 2025 at 10:33
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 21 September 2025 at 19:54
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 29 September 2025 at 23:54
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 7 October 2025 at 03:47
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 317 / 1270
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 317 of Meeus index or 1270 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.58 days
Length of current 317 lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 48 minutes. It is 2 hours and 43 minutes shorter than next lunation 318 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 4 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 59 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠93°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠93°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠127.7°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon in perigee
Moon is reaching point of perigee on this date at 12:09, this is 11 days after last apogee on 29 August 2025 at 15:34 in ♏ Scorpio. Lunar orbit is starting to get wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth for 15 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next apogee on 26 September 2025 at 09:46 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 364 781 km
This perigee Moon is 364 781 km (226 664 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 273 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 5 575 km farther than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
2 days after its ascending node on 7 September 2025 at 23:08 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 10 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 20 September 2025 at 23:13 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
2 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
8 days after previous South standstill on 1 September 2025 at 22:04 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.623°. Next 4 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.630° in the next northern standstill on 14 September 2025 at 21:23 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 11 days
After 11 days on 21 September 2025 at 19:54 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.