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
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 27 minutes. It is 2 hours and 33 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 43 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 20 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠108.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠108.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠140.6°.
Moon after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 12 August 2033 at 21:22 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 28 August 2033 at 15:27 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 364 052 km
The Moon is 364 052 km (226 211 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 13 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 762 km (252 129 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 14 August 2033 at 11:54 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 28 August 2033 at 07:12 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 7 August 2033 at 00:25 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.529°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.456° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 August 2033 at 17:46 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 9 days
In 9 days on 24 August 2033 at 21:40 in ♌ Leo 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.
