Waning
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 98% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 98% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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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 29 September 2042 at 10:34.
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 passing about ∠22° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1916".
Harvest Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2042 after 28 days on 28 October 2042 at 19:48.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 6 October 2042 at 02:35
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 14 October 2042 at 02:03
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 22 October 2042 at 02:53
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 28 October 2042 at 19:48
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 528 / 1481
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 528 of Meeus index or 1481 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.72 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 13 minutes. It is 1 hour and 12 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 4 hours and 29 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 34 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠152.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠152.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠177.1°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 29 September 2042 at 23:50 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 14 October 2042 at 10:02 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 363 297 km
The Moon is 363 297 km (225 742 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 13 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 527 km (252 604 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♈ Aries at 04:41 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 13 October 2042 at 20:03 in ♎ Libra.
New draconic month
At 04:41 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 22 September 2042 at 20:02 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.465°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.491° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 October 2042 at 09:09 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 13 days
In 13 days on 14 October 2042 at 02:03 in ♎ Libra 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.
