Waning Gibbous Moon
Waning Gibbous MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waning Gibbous in Taurus

Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 69% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 20 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

The 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 phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♉ Taurus

Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.

5 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 22 August 2040 at 09:09.

Sturgeon Moon before 5 days

Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2040 after 24 days on 20 September 2040 at 17:43.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1845"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1845" and ∠1900".

Lunation 502 / 1455

The Moon is 20 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 502 of Meeus index or 1455 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.62 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 47 minutes and it is 35 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Lunation length longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 3 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠199°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠199° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠226.5°.

Moon before apogee

6 days since point of perigee on 21 August 2040 at 03:58 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 2 September 2040 at 10:15 in ♋ Cancer.

Distance to Moon 388 474 km

The Moon is 388 474 km (241 387 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 547 km (251 995 mi).

Moon before ascending node

11 days after descending node on 16 August 2040 at 05:30 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 28 August 2040 at 19:18 in ♉ Taurus.

Moon before northern standstill

8 days since the last southern standstill on 18 August 2040 at 23:35 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.313° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.397° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 September 2040 at 03:14 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

25 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 10 days

In 10 days on 6 September 2040 at 15:13 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov