Waning
Gibbous ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 96% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 96% 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 20 August 2043 at 15:04.
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 passing about ∠23° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1912"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1912" and ∠1897".
Sturgeon Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2043 after 27 days on 19 September 2043 at 01:47.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 27 August 2043 at 13:09
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 3 September 2043 at 13:17
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 11 September 2043 at 13:01
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 19 September 2043 at 01:47
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 539 / 1492
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 539 of Meeus index or 1492 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 55 minutes. It is 3 hours 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 1 hour and 49 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 20 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠57.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠57.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠88.7°.
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of apogee on 13 August 2043 at 08:32 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 26 August 2043 at 13:38 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 374 890 km
The Moon is 374 890 km (232 946 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 598 km (229 658 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♓ Pisces at 23:42 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 4 September 2043 at 23:58 in ♍ Virgo.
New draconic month
At 23:42 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 16 August 2043 at 03:37 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.600°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.661° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 August 2043 at 09:18 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 3 September 2043 at 13:17 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.
