Waning
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 85% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 85% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 2 September 2039 at 19:23.
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 in ♈ Aries
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♉ Taurus later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1803"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1803" and ∠1904".
Harvest Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2039 after 25 days on 2 October 2039 at 07:23.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 10 September 2039 at 13:45
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 18 September 2039 at 08:23
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 25 September 2039 at 04:53
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 2 October 2039 at 07:23
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 490 / 1443
The Moon is 18 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 490 of Meeus index or 1443 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.48 days
Length of current 490 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 32 minutes. It is 46 minutes longer than next lunation 491 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 12 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 57 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠260.1°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠260.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠294.5°. 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
8 days after point of perigee on 29 August 2039 at 03:16 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 4 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 10 September 2039 at 14:24 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 397 442 km
Moon is 397 442 km (246 959 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 4 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 110 km (251 102 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after its descending node on 28 August 2039 at 01:19 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 4 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 10 September 2039 at 13:18 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
23 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
7 days after previous South standstill on 29 August 2039 at 14:11 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-24.880°. Next 6 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠24.993° in the next northern standstill on 12 September 2039 at 12:07 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 11 days
After 11 days on 18 September 2039 at 08:23 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.