Waning
Gibbous ♈ Aries
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 78% and getting smaller. The 19 days old Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 21 July 2062 at 12:47.
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 is leaving the last ∠1° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♈ Aries later.
Lunar disc appears visually 3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1834" and ∠1889".
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2062 after 24 days on 20 August 2062 at 03:55.
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.
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 773 of Meeus index or 1726 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 6 hours and 48 minutes. It is 1 hour and 14 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 57 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 13 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠358.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠14°.
6 days after point of apogee on 20 July 2062 at 10:49 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 4 August 2062 at 04:41 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 390 806 km (242 836 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 393 km (222 695 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♓ Pisces at 00:55 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 12 days later on 7 August 2062 at 17:38 in ♍ Virgo.
At 00:55 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
7 days since the previous standstill on 19 July 2062 at 00:25 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.466°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.542° at the point of next northern standstill on 2 August 2062 at 02:58 in ♊ Gemini.
In 9 days on 5 August 2062 at 00:40 in ♌ Leo 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.