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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 ♊ Gemini.
Moon phases for next 7 days
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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 27 August 2045 at 14:08.
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 is entering ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1885"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1885" and ∠1903".
Sturgeon Moon before 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2045 after 22 days on 26 September 2045 at 06:11.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 4 September 2045 at 10:03
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 11 September 2045 at 01:27
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 18 September 2045 at 01:30
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 26 September 2045 at 06:11
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 564 / 1517
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 564 of Meeus index or 1517 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.33 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 48 minutes. It is 1 hour and 21 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 56 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 13 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠0.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠0.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠16.2°.
Moon before apogee
8 days after point of apogee on 26 August 2045 at 04:13 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 September 2045 at 02:20 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 380 195 km
The Moon is 380 195 km (236 242 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 804 km (222 950 mi).
Moon before descending node
7 days after ascending node on 26 August 2045 at 14:00 in ♒ Aquarius. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 9 September 2045 at 07:56 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
7 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
12 days since the previous standstill on 21 August 2045 at 15:27 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.803°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠27.764° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 September 2045 at 06:33 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 11 September 2045 at 01:27 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.
