Waning Gibbous Moon
Waning Gibbous MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waning Gibbous in Pisces

Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 73% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 20 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

The 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 phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon is entering ♓ Pisces

Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 15 June 2068 at 17:00.

Strawberry Moon before 4 days

Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2068 after 24 days on 15 July 2068 at 02:07.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1969"

Lunar disc appears visually 4.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1969" and ∠1888".

Lunation 846 / 1799

The Moon is 20 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 846 of Meeus index or 1799 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.46 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 8 minutes and it is 1 hour and 35 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit 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 1 hour and 36 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 33 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠66°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠66° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠99.8°.

Moon at perigee

Moon is at perigee at 10:58 about 12 days since last apogee on 7 June 2068 at 22:05 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 5 July 2068 at 16:27 in ♍ Virgo.

Distance to Moon 368 627 km

This perigee Moon is 368 627 km (229 054 mi) away from Earth. It is 6 119 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 1 729 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.

Moon before descending node

6 days after ascending node on 13 June 2068 at 23:06 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 26 June 2068 at 20:13 in ♉ Taurus.

Moon after southern standstill

5 days since the last southern standstill on 15 June 2068 at 04:19 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.453° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.448° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 June 2068 at 02:09 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

6 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 9 days

In 9 days on 29 June 2068 at 15:11 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov