Waning
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 90% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 90% and getting smaller. The 17 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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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 9 June 2055 at 11:36.
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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1821"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1821" and ∠1889".
Strawberry Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2055 after 26 days on 8 July 2055 at 22:11.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 17 June 2055 at 05:02
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 25 June 2055 at 00:15
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 1 July 2055 at 21:31
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 8 July 2055 at 22:11
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 685 / 1638
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 685 of Meeus index or 1638 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.47 days
Length of current 685 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 18 minutes. It is 1 hour and 46 minutes longer than next lunation 686 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 26 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 43 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠254.3°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠254.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠288.5°. 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
7 days after point of perigee on 5 June 2055 at 06:32 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 17 June 2055 at 13:16 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 393 630 km
Moon is 393 630 km (244 590 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 5 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 162 km (251 135 mi).
Moon before descending node
11 days after its ascending node on 31 May 2055 at 13:01 in ♌ Leo, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 13 June 2055 at 11:33 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
11 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day after previous South standstill on 11 June 2055 at 02:05 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-20.408°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠20.427° in the next northern standstill on 25 June 2055 at 12:46 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 12 days
After 12 days on 25 June 2055 at 00:15 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.