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Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 60% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 60% and getting smaller. The 21 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 22 August 2040 at 09:09.
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 ∠25° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1823"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1823" and ∠1900".
Sturgeon Moon before 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2040 after 23 days on 20 September 2040 at 17:43.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 29 August 2040 at 11:16
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 6 September 2040 at 15:13
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 14 September 2040 at 02:07
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ 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.
Lunation 502 / 1455
The Moon is 21 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 502 of Meeus index or 1455 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.62 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 47 minutes. It is 35 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 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 position on
True anomaly ∠199°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠199°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠226.5°.
Moon before perigee
7 days after 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 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 2 September 2040 at 10:15 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 393 081 km
The Moon is 393 081 km (244 249 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 547 km (251 995 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♉ Taurus at 19:18 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 12 September 2040 at 06:11 in ♏ Scorpio.
New draconic month
At 19:18 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
9 days since the previous 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 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.397° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 September 2040 at 03:14 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 9 days
In 9 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.
