Waning
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 96% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 96% 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 21 September 2078 at 17:31.
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 ∠25° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1966"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1913".
Harvest Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2078 after 27 days on 21 October 2078 at 02:55.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 28 September 2078 at 09:00
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 5 October 2078 at 23:06
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 14 October 2078 at 04:07
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 21 October 2078 at 02:55
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 973 / 1926
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 973 of Meeus index or 1926 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.63 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 7 minutes. It is 2 hours and 43 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 2 hours and 23 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 40 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠115.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠115.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠146.4°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 13:38. It is 11 days after previous apogee on 11 September 2078 at 14:50 in ♏ Scorpio. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 15 days, until point of next apogee on 9 October 2078 at 06:58 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 361 662 km
This perigee Moon is 361 662 km (224 726 mi) away from Earth. It is 846 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 8 694 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
12 days after descending node on 11 September 2078 at 01:26 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 24 September 2078 at 13:18 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
26 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 15 September 2078 at 16:23 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.437°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.518° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 September 2078 at 11:14 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 5 October 2078 at 23:06 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.
