Waning
Gibbous ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 93% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 93% and getting smaller. The 17 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 8 July 2055 at 22:11.
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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1796"
Lunar disc appears visually 5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1796" and ∠1887".
Buck Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2055 after 26 days on 7 August 2055 at 10:57.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 16 July 2055 at 22:15
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 24 July 2055 at 09:48
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 31 July 2055 at 02:11
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 7 August 2055 at 10:57
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 686 / 1639
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 686 of Meeus index or 1639 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.4 days
Length of current 686 lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 32 minutes. It is 1 hour and 5 minutes longer than next lunation 687 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 12 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 57 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠288.5°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠288.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠315.9°. 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
11 days after point of perigee on 30 June 2055 at 11:09 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 3 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 15 July 2055 at 07:49 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 399 139 km
Moon is 399 139 km (248 013 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 3 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 416 km (251 292 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after its descending node on 10 July 2055 at 18:14 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 13 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 25 July 2055 at 00:16 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
13 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
3 days after previous South standstill on 8 July 2055 at 11:08 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-20.424°. Next 11 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠20.410° in the next northern standstill on 22 July 2055 at 22:16 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 12 days
After 12 days on 24 July 2055 at 09:48 in ♌ Leo, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.