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Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 60% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 60% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 6 days on 19 September 2089 at 21:55.
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 ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1934"
Lunar disc appears visually 1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1934" and ∠1915".
Harvest Moon before 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2089 after 23 days on 19 October 2089 at 13:04.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 27 September 2089 at 09:15
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 4 October 2089 at 01:15
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 11 October 2089 at 11:22
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 19 October 2089 at 13:04
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 1109 / 2062
The Moon is 21 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1109 of Meeus index or 2062 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.39 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 17 minutes. It is 2 hours and 23 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 27 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 42 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠19.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠19.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠38.1°.
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of apogee on 15 September 2089 at 19:18 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 1 October 2089 at 16:29 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 370 608 km
The Moon is 370 608 km (230 285 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 744 km (226 020 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after descending node on 20 September 2089 at 20:20 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 3 October 2089 at 21:22 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
20 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 20:57 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠18.219°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2089. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-18.220° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 9 October 2089 at 17:53.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 4 October 2089 at 01:15 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.
