Waning
Gibbous ♓ Pisces
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 ♓ Pisces.
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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 30 July 2072 at 00:17.
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 ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1891".
Buck Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2072 after 27 days on 28 August 2072 at 15:59.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 7 August 2072 at 04:15
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 14 August 2072 at 01:21
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 20 August 2072 at 17:20
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 28 August 2072 at 15:59
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 897 / 1850
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 897 of Meeus index or 1850 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.31 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 25 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2072. It is 21 minutes shorter 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 19 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 50 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠333.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠333.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠350.4°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 19:10. It is 15 days after previous perigee on 17 July 2072 at 07:53 in ♌ Leo. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 13 days, until point of next perigee on 14 August 2072 at 14:59 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 405 886 km
This apogee Moon is 405 886 km (252 206 mi) away from Earth. It is 478 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 823 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♓ Pisces at 17:10 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 13 days later on 15 August 2072 at 05:10 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 27 July 2072 at 08:30 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.639°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.592° at the point of next northern standstill on 10 August 2072 at 21:36 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 14 August 2072 at 01:21 in ♌ Leo 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.
