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Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 64% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 64% and getting smaller. The 20 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 5 August 2066 at 16:59.
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 is entering ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1819"
Lunar disc appears visually 4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1819" and ∠1893".
Sturgeon Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2066 after 23 days on 4 September 2066 at 01:37.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 12 August 2066 at 20:59
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 21 August 2066 at 00:50
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 28 August 2066 at 08:25
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 4 September 2066 at 01:37
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 823 / 1776
The Moon is 20 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 823 of Meeus index or 1776 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 16 minutes. It is 1 hour and 18 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 32 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 31 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠207°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠207°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠236.4°.
Moon before perigee
7 days after point of perigee on 4 August 2066 at 03:18 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 16 August 2066 at 05:19 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 393 969 km
The Moon is 393 969 km (244 801 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 122 km (251 731 mi).
Moon before descending node
8 days after ascending node on 3 August 2066 at 08:34 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 16 August 2066 at 21:14 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
8 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 2 August 2066 at 00:55 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.680°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.625° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 August 2066 at 06:35 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 9 days
In 9 days on 21 August 2066 at 00:50 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.
