Waning
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 91% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 91% and getting smaller. The 17 days old Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 4 September 2047 at 08:54.
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 ∠20° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1776"
Lunar disc appears visually 7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1776" and ∠1904".
Harvest Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2047 after 26 days on 3 October 2047 at 23:42.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 12 September 2047 at 11:18
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 19 September 2047 at 18:31
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 26 September 2047 at 09:29
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 3 October 2047 at 23:42
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 589 / 1542
The Moon is 17 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 589 of Meeus index or 1542 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.39 days
Length of current 589 lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 15 minutes. It is 18 minutes longer than next lunation 590 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 29 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 40 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠306.1°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠306.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠329.2°. 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 before apogee
13 days after point of perigee on 24 August 2047 at 23:21 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 2 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 9 September 2047 at 17:06 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 403 616 km
Moon is 403 616 km (250 795 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 2 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 975 km (251 640 mi).
Moon before descending node
7 days after its ascending node on 31 August 2047 at 00:29 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 6 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 14 September 2047 at 10:02 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
7 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
9 days after previous South standstill on 29 August 2047 at 04:16 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-25.179°. Next 4 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠25.055° in the next northern standstill on 12 September 2047 at 11:14 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 12 days
After 12 days on 19 September 2047 at 18:31 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.