Waning
Gibbous ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 96% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 96% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 10 August 2033 at 18:08.
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 ∠14° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1962"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1962" and ∠1894".
Sturgeon Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2033 after 27 days on 9 September 2033 at 02:20.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 17 August 2033 at 09:43
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 24 August 2033 at 21:40
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 2 September 2033 at 02:24
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 9 September 2033 at 02:20
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 415 / 1368
The Moon is 16 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 415 of Meeus index or 1368 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.56 days
Length of current 415 lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 27 minutes. It is 2 hours and 33 minutes shorter than next lunation 416 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 43 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 6 hours and 20 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠108.5°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠108.5°. 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 21:22, this is 11 days after last apogee on 31 July 2033 at 23:13 in ♎ Libra. Lunar orbit is starting to get wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth for 16 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next apogee on 28 August 2033 at 15:27 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 362 710 km
This perigee Moon is 362 710 km (225 378 mi) away from Earth. It is 202 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 7 646 km farther than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
11 days after its ascending node on 1 August 2033 at 03:38 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 14 August 2033 at 11:54 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
11 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
5 days after previous South standstill on 7 August 2033 at 00:25 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-18.529°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠18.456° in the next northern standstill on 19 August 2033 at 17:46 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 12 days
After 12 days on 24 August 2033 at 21:40 in ♌ Leo, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.