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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 ♈ Aries.
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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 July 2043 at 03:24.
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 ∠24° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1958"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1958" and ∠1890".
Buck Moon before 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2043 after 23 days on 20 August 2043 at 15:04.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 29 July 2043 at 08:23
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 5 August 2043 at 02:23
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 12 August 2043 at 18:57
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 20 August 2043 at 15:04
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 538 / 1491
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 538 of Meeus index or 1491 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.36 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 32 minutes. It is 2 hours and 23 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 4 hours and 12 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 57 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠33.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠33.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠57.1°.
Moon before apogee
11 days after point of apogee on 16 July 2043 at 14:34 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 1 August 2043 at 05:13 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 366 166 km
The Moon is 366 166 km (227 525 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 517 km (228 364 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 26 July 2043 at 19:43 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 8 August 2043 at 16:43 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 19 July 2043 at 20:10 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.464°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.531° at the point of next northern standstill on 2 August 2043 at 03:11 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 5 August 2043 at 02:23 in ♌ Leo 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.
