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Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 64% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 64% and getting smaller. The 20 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 6 days on 14 August 2038 at 22:57.
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 ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1897".
Sturgeon Moon before 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2038 after 23 days on 13 September 2038 at 12:24.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 22 August 2038 at 23:12
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 30 August 2038 at 10:13
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 6 September 2038 at 01:51
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 13 September 2038 at 12:24
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 477 / 1430
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 477 of Meeus index or 1430 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.4 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 32 minutes. It is 47 minutes longer 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 3 hours and 12 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 57 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠293.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠293.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠319.9°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 01:57. It is 15 days after previous perigee on 5 August 2038 at 21:36 in ♎ Libra. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 11 days, until point of next perigee on 1 September 2038 at 22:39 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 404 583 km
This apogee Moon is 404 583 km (251 396 mi) away from Earth. It is 825 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 126 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
9 days after descending node on 11 August 2038 at 18:25 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 26 August 2038 at 03:40 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
22 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, 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 August 2038 at 22:09 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.076°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.151° at the point of next northern standstill on 26 August 2038 at 08:58 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 30 August 2038 at 10:13 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.
