Waning
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 92% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 92% and getting smaller. The 17 days old Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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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 13 September 2038 at 12:24.
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 ♈ Aries
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♉ Taurus later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1770"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1909".
Harvest Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2038 after 26 days on 13 October 2038 at 04:22.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 21 September 2038 at 16:27
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 28 September 2038 at 18:57
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 5 October 2038 at 09:52
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 13 October 2038 at 04:22
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 478 / 1431
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 478 of Meeus index or 1431 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.36 days
Length of current 478 lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 45 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2038. It is 10 minutes shorter than next lunation 479 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 59 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 10 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠319.9°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠319.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠339.4°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before apogee
14 days after point of perigee on 1 September 2038 at 22:39 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next apogee on 17 September 2038 at 19:15 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 405 034 km
Moon is 405 034 km (251 676 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next day until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 516 km (251 976 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after its descending node on 7 September 2038 at 20:51 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 5 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 22 September 2038 at 07:26 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
21 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
8 days after previous South standstill on 8 September 2038 at 03:20 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-23.232°. Next 6 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠23.372° in the next northern standstill on 22 September 2038 at 17:24 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 12 days
After 12 days on 28 September 2038 at 18:57 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.