Waning
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 77% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 77% and getting smaller. The 19 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 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 ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1905".
Harvest Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2047 after 24 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 19 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 in apogee
Moon is reaching point of apogee on this date at 17:06, this is 15 days after last perigee on 24 August 2047 at 23:21 in ♎ Libra. 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 21 September 2047 at 15:28 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 404 975 km
This apogee Moon is 404 975 km (251 640 mi) away from Earth. It is 433 km farther than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 734 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
9 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 4 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
9 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
11 days after previous South standstill on 29 August 2047 at 04:16 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-25.179°. Next 2 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 10 days
After 10 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.