Waning
Gibbous ♈ Aries
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 ♓ 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 19 August 2081 at 11:15.
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 ∠21° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1897".
Sturgeon Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2081 after 27 days on 18 September 2081 at 03:45.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 27 August 2081 at 14:08
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 3 September 2081 at 09:01
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 10 September 2081 at 02:21
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 18 September 2081 at 03:45
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 1009 / 1962
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 1009 of Meeus index or 1962 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.32 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 38 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2081. It is 44 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 6 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 3 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠341.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠341.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠357.1°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 05:57. It is 15 days after previous perigee on 6 August 2081 at 03:56 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 3 September 2081 at 13:09 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 406 148 km
This apogee Moon is 406 148 km (252 369 mi) away from Earth. It is 740 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 561 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♓ Pisces at 00:00 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 3 September 2081 at 14:55 in ♍ Virgo.
New draconic month
At 00:00 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 14 August 2081 at 14:13 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.500°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.537° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 August 2081 at 07:15 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 3 September 2081 at 09:01 in ♍ Virgo 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.
