Waning
Gibbous ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 97% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 97% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 31 August 2042 at 02:02.
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 ♓ Pisces
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♈ Aries later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1966"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1902".
Sturgeon Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2042 after 27 days on 29 September 2042 at 10:34.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 6 September 2042 at 17:09
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 14 September 2042 at 08:50
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 22 September 2042 at 13:20
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 29 September 2042 at 10:34
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 527 / 1480
The Moon is 16 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 527 of Meeus index or 1480 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.62 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 49 minutes. It is 2 hours 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 5 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 58 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠123.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠123.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠152.7°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 15:49. It is 12 days after previous apogee on 20 August 2042 at 13:59 in ♎ Libra. 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 17 September 2042 at 04:21 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 360 666 km
This perigee Moon is 360 666 km (224 107 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 842 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 9 690 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
12 days after descending node on 20 August 2042 at 09:13 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 2 September 2042 at 19:23 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
25 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 26 August 2042 at 11:39 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.327°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.396° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 September 2042 at 03:00 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 14 September 2042 at 08:50 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.
