Waning
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 90% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 90% and getting smaller. The 17 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
Moon phases for next 7 days
Friday Fri
Saturday Sat
Sunday Sun
Monday Mon
Tuesday Tue
Wednesday Wed
Thursday Thu
Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 17 September 2035 at 14:23.
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 ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1917"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1917" and ∠1911".
Harvest Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2035 after 26 days on 17 October 2035 at 02:35.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 24 September 2035 at 14:39
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 1 October 2035 at 13:07
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 9 October 2035 at 09:49
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 17 October 2035 at 02:35
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 441 / 1394
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 441 of Meeus index or 1394 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.46 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 7 minutes. It is 2 hours and 45 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 1 hour and 37 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 32 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠46.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠46.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠75°.
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of apogee on 10 September 2035 at 23:26 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 25 September 2035 at 13:37 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 373 954 km
The Moon is 373 954 km (232 364 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 772 km (229 766 mi).
Moon after descending node
4 days after descending node on 16 September 2035 at 02:58 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 29 September 2035 at 03:21 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
18 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 11 September 2035 at 06:40 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.755°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.804° at the point of next northern standstill on 24 September 2035 at 23:19 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 1 October 2035 at 13:07 in ♎ Libra 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.
