Waning
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 71% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 71% and getting smaller. The 20 days old Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days 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 ♈ Aries
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♉ Taurus later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1969"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1969" and ∠1895".
Sturgeon Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2033 after 24 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
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 415 / 1368
The Moon is 20 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 after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 12 August 2033 at 21:22 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 13 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 28 August 2033 at 15:27 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 364 052 km
Moon is 364 052 km (226 211 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 13 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 762 km (252 129 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after its descending node on 14 August 2033 at 11:54 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 12 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 28 August 2033 at 07:12 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
14 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
8 days after previous South standstill on 7 August 2033 at 00:25 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-18.529°. Next 4 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 9 days
After 9 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.