Waning Gibbous Moon
Waning Gibbous MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waning Gibbous in Taurus

Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 77% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 19 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

The 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 phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon is entering ♉ Taurus

Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 23 August 2059 at 09:42.

Sturgeon Moon before 4 days

Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2059 after 25 days on 21 September 2059 at 17:18.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1949"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1949" and ∠1899".

Lunation 737 / 1690

The Moon is 19 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 737 of Meeus index or 1690 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.64 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 23 minutes and it is 1 hour and 26 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).

Lunation length longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 39 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 24 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠149.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠149.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠173.7°.

Moon after perigee

3 days since point of perigee on 24 August 2059 at 02:14 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 7 September 2059 at 16:10 in ♍ Virgo.

Distance to Moon 367 861 km

The Moon is 367 861 km (228 578 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 622 km (252 663 mi).

Moon before ascending node

11 days after descending node on 16 August 2059 at 07:59 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 28 August 2059 at 20:26 in ♉ Taurus.

Moon before northern standstill

7 days since the last southern standstill on 19 August 2059 at 20:09 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.789° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.870° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 September 2059 at 10:58 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

25 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 10 days

In 10 days on 6 September 2059 at 23:01 in ♍ Virgo 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov