Waning
Gibbous ♓ Pisces
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 ♒ Aquarius.
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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 29 June 2026 at 23:57.
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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1816"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1816" and ∠1887".
Strawberry Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2026 after 26 days on 29 July 2026 at 14:36.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 7 July 2026 at 19:29
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 14 July 2026 at 09:43
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 21 July 2026 at 11:06
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 29 July 2026 at 14:36
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 327 / 1280
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 327 of Meeus index or 1280 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.28 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 6 hours and 49 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2026. It is 1 hour and 4 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 5 hours and 55 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 14 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠2.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠2.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠18°.
Moon after apogee
5 days after point of apogee on 28 June 2026 at 07:11 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 13 July 2026 at 07:50 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 394 753 km
The Moon is 394 753 km (245 288 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 111 km (223 141 mi).
Moon before ascending node
13 days after descending node on 19 June 2026 at 17:57 in ♌ Leo. 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 4 July 2026 at 07:51 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
4 days since the previous standstill on 28 June 2026 at 22:06 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.988°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.033° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 July 2026 at 15:18 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 14 July 2026 at 09:43 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.
