Waning
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
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 ♒ Aquarius.
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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 23 June 2032 at 11:32.
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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1965"
Lunar disc appears visually 4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1965" and ∠1888".
Strawberry Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2032 after 27 days on 22 July 2032 at 18:51.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 30 June 2032 at 02:12
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 7 July 2032 at 14:41
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 15 July 2032 at 18:32
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 22 July 2032 at 18:51
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 401 / 1354
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 401 of Meeus index or 1354 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.55 days
Length of current 401 lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 9 minutes. It is 1 hour and 21 minutes shorter than next lunation 402 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 25 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 6 hours and 38 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠108.4°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠108.4°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠140.6°. 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 14:55, this is 11 days after last apogee on 13 June 2032 at 16:28 in ♌ Leo. 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 11 July 2032 at 07:50 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 362 652 km
This perigee Moon is 362 652 km (225 342 mi) away from Earth. It is 144 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 7 704 km farther than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
5 days after its ascending node on 19 June 2032 at 13:56 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 6 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 2 July 2032 at 05:24 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
5 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days after previous South standstill on 22 June 2032 at 16:28 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-19.677°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠19.659° in the next northern standstill on 5 July 2032 at 14:56 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 12 days
After 12 days on 7 July 2032 at 14:41 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.