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Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 59% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 59% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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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 18 June 2046 at 13:10.
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 ∠24° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1888".
Strawberry Moon before 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2046 after 22 days on 18 July 2046 at 00:55.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 26 June 2046 at 10:40
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 4 July 2046 at 01:39
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 10 July 2046 at 19:53
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 18 July 2046 at 00:55
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 574 / 1527
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 574 of Meeus index or 1527 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
Length of current 574 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 16 minutes. It is 1 hour and 29 minutes longer than next lunation 575 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 28 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 41 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠274°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠274°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠304.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon in apogee
Moon is reaching point of apogee on this date at 16:40, this is 13 days after last perigee on 12 June 2046 at 03:54 in ♍ Virgo. Lunar orbit is starting to get closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth for 12 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next perigee on 7 July 2046 at 18:06 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 404 192 km
This apogee Moon is 404 192 km (251 153 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest apogee of 2046. It is 1 216 km farther than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 141 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
4 days after its ascending node on 21 June 2046 at 10:29 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 10 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 5 July 2046 at 15:30 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
4 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
7 days after previous South standstill on 18 June 2046 at 02:43 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-26.680°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠26.701° in the next northern standstill on 2 July 2046 at 13:24 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 8 days
After 8 days on 4 July 2046 at 01:39 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.