Waning
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 99% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99% 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 27 September 2072 at 08:43.
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 ∠19° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1787"
Lunar disc appears visually 7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1787" and ∠1916".
Harvest Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2072 after 28 days on 27 October 2072 at 01:21.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 5 October 2072 at 02:28
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 11 October 2072 at 17:55
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 18 October 2072 at 20:37
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 27 October 2072 at 01:21
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 899 / 1852
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 899 of Meeus index or 1852 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.37 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 48 minutes. It is 1 hour and 38 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 3 hours and 56 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 13 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠5.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠5.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠21.6°.
Moon after apogee
3 days after point of apogee on 25 September 2072 at 03:10 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 October 2072 at 10:58 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 401 181 km
The Moon is 401 181 km (249 282 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 826 km (223 586 mi).
Moon after descending node
3 days after descending node on 25 September 2072 at 05:16 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 9 October 2072 at 01:44 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
16 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, 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 19 September 2072 at 20:57 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.581°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.655° at the point of next northern standstill on 4 October 2072 at 13:44 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 13 days
In 13 days on 11 October 2072 at 17:55 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.
