Waning
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 96% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 96% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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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 8 July 2036 at 11:19.
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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1887".
Buck Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2036 after 27 days on 7 August 2036 at 02:49.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 16 July 2036 at 14:39
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 23 July 2036 at 10:17
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 30 July 2036 at 02:56
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 7 August 2036 at 02:49
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 451 / 1404
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 451 of Meeus index or 1404 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.3 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 7 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2036. It is 11 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 37 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 32 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠338.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠338.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠354.1°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 16:20. It is 15 days after previous perigee on 25 June 2036 at 10:31 in ♋ Cancer. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 13 days, until point of next perigee on 23 July 2036 at 18:38 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 406 005 km
This apogee Moon is 406 005 km (252 280 mi) away from Earth. It is 597 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 704 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
13 days after ascending node on 27 June 2036 at 02:46 in ♌ Leo. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 11 July 2036 at 00:53 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, 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 7 July 2036 at 21:09 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.902°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.877° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 July 2036 at 00:37 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 23 July 2036 at 10:17 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.
