Waning
Gibbous ♈ Aries
Moon phase on 17 July 2052 Wednesday is Waning Gibbous, 20 days old Moon is in Aries.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 71% and getting smaller. The 20 days old Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 12 July 2052 at 00:23.
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 passing first ∠1° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 1.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1921" and ∠1888".
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2052 after 24 days on 10 August 2052 at 12:52.
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.
The Moon is 20 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 649 of Meeus index or 1602 from Brown series.
Length of current 649 lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 41 minutes. It is 1 hour and 55 minutes shorter than next lunation 650 length.
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 3 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 6 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠23.2°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠43°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
9 days after point of apogee on 7 July 2052 at 12:41 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 23 July 2052 at 08:05 in ♊ Gemini.
Moon is 373 051 km (231 803 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 5 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 364 746 km (226 643 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♈ Aries at 23:36 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from North to South. Moon will follow the southern part of its orbit for the next 13 days to meet ascending node on 30 July 2052 at 18:07 in ♎ Libra.
13 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
7 days after previous South standstill on 10 July 2052 at 04:04 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-18.479°. Next 6 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠18.413° in the next northern standstill on 23 July 2052 at 14:42 in ♊ Gemini.
After 8 days on 26 July 2052 at 01:31 in ♌ Leo, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.