Waning
Gibbous ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 89% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 89% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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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 20 August 2062 at 03:55.
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 ♈ Aries
Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1846"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1846" and ∠1898".
Sturgeon Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2062 after 26 days on 18 September 2062 at 18:36.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 27 August 2062 at 17:49
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 3 September 2062 at 08:42
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 10 September 2062 at 15:59
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 18 September 2062 at 18:36
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 774 / 1727
The Moon is 18 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 774 of Meeus index or 1727 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.33 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 2 minutes. It is 2 hours and 5 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°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 42 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 27 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠14°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠14°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠31.5°.
Moon after apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 16 August 2062 at 18:05 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 1 September 2062 at 10:35 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 388 378 km
The Moon is 388 378 km (241 327 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 122 km (225 012 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 22 August 2062 at 04:45 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 4 September 2062 at 03:11 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 15 August 2062 at 06:10 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.592°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.645° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 August 2062 at 10:48 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 3 September 2062 at 08:42 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.
