Waning
Gibbous ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 95% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 95% and getting smaller. The 17 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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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 14 July 2079 at 03:24.
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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠21° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1820"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1820" and ∠1888".
Buck Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2079 after 27 days on 12 August 2079 at 17:00.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 21 July 2079 at 17:54
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 28 July 2079 at 08:33
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 4 August 2079 at 14:28
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 12 August 2079 at 17:00
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 983 / 1936
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 983 of Meeus index or 1936 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.29 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 2 minutes. It is 1 hour and 27 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 5 hours and 42 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 27 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠12°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠12°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠28.8°.
Moon after apogee
5 days after point of apogee on 11 July 2079 at 01:15 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 26 July 2079 at 14:32 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 393 899 km
The Moon is 393 899 km (244 757 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 454 km (224 597 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after descending node on 7 July 2079 at 02:33 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 21 July 2079 at 12:53 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
22 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 12 July 2079 at 17:02 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.936°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.003° at the point of next northern standstill on 26 July 2079 at 06:44 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 28 July 2079 at 08:33 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.
