Waning
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 88% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 88% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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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 14 June 2041 at 10:59.
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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1965"
Lunar disc appears visually 4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1965" and ∠1888".
Strawberry Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2041 after 26 days on 13 July 2041 at 19:01.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 21 June 2041 at 03:12
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 28 June 2041 at 11:17
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 6 July 2041 at 14:12
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 13 July 2041 at 19:01
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 512 / 1465
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 512 of Meeus index or 1465 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.51 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 21 minutes. It is 1 hour and 24 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 23 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 46 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠88.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠88.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠123.4°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 11:48. It is 11 days after previous apogee on 5 June 2041 at 13:34 in ♌ Leo. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 15 days, until point of next apogee on 3 July 2041 at 06:46 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 365 482 km
This perigee Moon is 365 482 km (227 100 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 974 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 4 874 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
5 days after descending node on 11 June 2041 at 14:42 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 24 June 2041 at 08:57 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
20 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 15 June 2041 at 09:11 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.308°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.286° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 June 2041 at 10:46 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 28 June 2041 at 11:17 in ♋ Cancer 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.
