Waning
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 76% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 76% and getting smaller. The 19 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 30 August 2061 at 22:18.
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 ∠11° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1958"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1958" and ∠1903".
Sturgeon Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2061 after 24 days on 29 September 2061 at 09:32.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 6 September 2061 at 21:12
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 13 September 2061 at 20:37
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 21 September 2061 at 19:44
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 29 September 2061 at 09:32
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 762 / 1715
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 762 of Meeus index or 1715 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.46 days
Length of current 762 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 58 minutes. It is 3 hours and 6 minutes shorter than next lunation 763 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 46 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 23 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠53.7°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠53.7°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠84.5°. 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°).
Moon before perigee
11 days after point of apogee on 23 August 2061 at 20:28 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next perigee on 6 September 2061 at 10:37 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 366 172 km
Moon is 366 172 km (227 529 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next day until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 369 805 km (229 786 mi).
Moon after ascending node
2 days after its ascending node on 2 September 2061 at 08:31 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 10 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 15 September 2061 at 08:16 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
2 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
9 days after previous South standstill on 25 August 2061 at 17:13 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.503°. Next 3 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.571° in the next northern standstill on 8 September 2061 at 02:43 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 9 days
After 9 days on 13 September 2061 at 20:37 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.