Waning
Gibbous ♈ Aries
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 ♈ Aries.
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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 20 September 2070 at 07:47.
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 ∠14° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1911"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1911" and ∠1912".
Harvest Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2070 after 28 days on 19 October 2070 at 18:59.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 27 September 2070 at 04:02
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 4 October 2070 at 07:01
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 12 October 2070 at 08:40
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 19 October 2070 at 18:59
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 874 / 1827
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 874 of Meeus index or 1827 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.52 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 33 minutes. It is 3 hours and 8 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 11 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 58 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠66.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠66.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠100.2°.
Moon before apogee
8 days after point of apogee on 12 September 2070 at 12:02 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 24 September 2070 at 22:02 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 375 177 km
The Moon is 375 177 km (233 124 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 697 km (229 098 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♈ Aries at 16:24 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 13 days later on 4 October 2070 at 16:29 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 13 September 2070 at 00:50 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.435°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.394° at the point of next northern standstill on 26 September 2070 at 13:29 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 4 October 2070 at 07:01 in ♎ Libra 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.
