Waning
Gibbous ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 83% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 83% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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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 15 July 2049 at 02:29.
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 ∠14° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1944"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1944" and ∠1888".
Buck Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2049 after 25 days on 13 August 2049 at 09:19.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 21 July 2049 at 18:48
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 29 July 2049 at 20:07
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 6 August 2049 at 17:52
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 13 August 2049 at 09:19
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 612 / 1565
The Moon is 18 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 612 of Meeus index or 1565 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 17 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2049. It is 6 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 33 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 30 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠162.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠162.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠185.8°.
Moon after perigee
3 days after point of perigee on 15 July 2049 at 07:18 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 29 July 2049 at 04:27 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 368 719 km
The Moon is 368 719 km (229 111 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 570 km (252 631 mi).
Moon after ascending node
6 days after ascending node on 12 July 2049 at 03:19 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 24 July 2049 at 21:01 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
6 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 12 July 2049 at 19:01 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.045°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.002° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 July 2049 at 17:25 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 29 July 2049 at 20:07 in ♌ Leo 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.
