Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 98% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 98% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 18 June 2065 at 09:28.
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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1928"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1928" and ∠1888".
Strawberry Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2065 after 28 days on 17 July 2065 at 17:45.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 25 June 2065 at 14:08
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 3 July 2065 at 17:16
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 11 July 2065 at 01:16
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 17 July 2065 at 17:45
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 809 / 1762
The Moon is 16 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 809 of Meeus index or 1762 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 11 minutes. It is 1 hour and 41 minutes longer 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 1 hour and 27 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 36 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠206.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠206.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠235.9°.
Moon after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 16 June 2065 at 20:01 in ♏ Scorpio. 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 28 June 2065 at 22:35 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 371 856 km
The Moon is 371 856 km (231 061 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 316 km (251 852 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after descending node on 7 June 2065 at 16:41 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 20 June 2065 at 10:37 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
26 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 17 June 2065 at 22:40 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.172°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.180° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 July 2065 at 23:11 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 14 days
In 14 days on 3 July 2065 at 17:16 in ♋ Cancer 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.
