Waning
Gibbous ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 94% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 94% and getting smaller. The 17 days old Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 1 September 2069 at 09:06.
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 ∠10° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1961"
Lunar disc appears visually 3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1961" and ∠1903".
Harvest Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2069 after 27 days on 30 September 2069 at 18:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 8 September 2069 at 01:22
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 15 September 2069 at 11:35
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 23 September 2069 at 16:23
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 30 September 2069 at 18:09
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 861 / 1814
The Moon is 17 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 861 of Meeus index or 1814 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.56 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 32 minutes. It is 2 hours and 56 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 48 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 15 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠99.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠99.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠133.4°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 20:15. It is 11 days after previous apogee on 22 August 2069 at 23:32 in ♏ Scorpio. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 16 days, until point of next apogee on 19 September 2069 at 17:06 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 363 898 km
This perigee Moon is 363 898 km (226 116 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 390 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 6 458 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
11 days after ascending node on 22 August 2069 at 19:50 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 5 September 2069 at 05:58 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
11 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 26 August 2069 at 12:58 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.563°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.464° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 September 2069 at 10:56 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 15 September 2069 at 11:35 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.
