Waning
Gibbous ♈ Aries
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 ♓ Pisces.
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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 19 August 2035 at 01:00.
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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♈ Aries later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1859"
Lunar disc appears visually 2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1859" and ∠1897".
Sturgeon Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2035 after 27 days on 17 September 2035 at 14:23.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 26 August 2035 at 09:08
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 2 September 2035 at 01:59
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 9 September 2035 at 14:47
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 17 September 2035 at 14:23
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 440 / 1393
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 440 of Meeus index or 1393 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.37 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 48 minutes. It is 2 hours and 19 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 3 hours and 56 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 13 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠25.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠25.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠46.4°.
Moon after apogee
7 days after point of apogee on 14 August 2035 at 06:09 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 30 August 2035 at 02:28 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 385 649 km
The Moon is 385 649 km (239 631 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 533 km (227 132 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 19 August 2035 at 19:18 in ♒ Aquarius. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 1 September 2035 at 19:14 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
16 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 14 August 2035 at 22:59 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.761°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.744° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 August 2035 at 17:25 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 2 September 2035 at 01:59 in ♍ Virgo 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.
