Waning
Gibbous ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 81% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 81% and getting smaller. The 19 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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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 21 September 2059 at 17:18.
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 ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1921"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1921" and ∠1914".
Harvest Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2059 after 25 days on 21 October 2059 at 02:15.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 28 September 2059 at 12:54
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 6 October 2059 at 15:50
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 14 October 2059 at 11:38
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 21 October 2059 at 02:15
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.
Lunation 738 / 1691
The Moon is 19 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 738 of Meeus index or 1691 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.7 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 49 minutes. It is 33 minutes shorter 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 4 hours and 5 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 58 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠173.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠173.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠197.3°.
Moon after perigee
3 days after point of perigee on 21 September 2059 at 12:34 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 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 4 October 2059 at 18:25 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 373 118 km
The Moon is 373 118 km (231 845 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 424 km (252 540 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♉ Taurus at 01:07 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 9 October 2059 at 12:05 in ♏ Scorpio.
New draconic month
At 01:07 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 16 September 2059 at 04:41 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.003°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.089° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 September 2059 at 16:57 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 6 October 2059 at 15:50 in ♎ Libra 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.
