Waning
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 97% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 97% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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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 1 July 2034 at 17:44.
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 ∠1843"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1843" and ∠1887".
Buck Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2034 after 27 days on 31 July 2034 at 05:54.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 9 July 2034 at 01:59
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 15 July 2034 at 18:15
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 23 July 2034 at 07:05
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 31 July 2034 at 05:54
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 426 / 1379
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 426 of Meeus index or 1379 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.33 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 49 minutes. It is 1 hour and 49 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 4 hours and 55 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 14 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠25.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠25.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠45.9°.
Moon after apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 27 June 2034 at 00:19 in ♏ Scorpio. 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 12 July 2034 at 19:35 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 388 988 km
The Moon is 388 988 km (241 706 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 365 km (227 027 mi).
Moon before descending node
10 days after ascending node on 23 June 2034 at 06:36 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 7 July 2034 at 14:33 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
10 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 30 June 2034 at 23:50 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.423°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.385° at the point of next northern standstill on 14 July 2034 at 05:13 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 15 July 2034 at 18:15 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.
