Waning
Gibbous ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 91% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 91% and getting smaller. The 17 days old Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 10 August 2090 at 06:51.
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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♈ Aries later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1894".
Sturgeon Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2090 after 26 days on 8 September 2090 at 22:44.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 18 August 2090 at 11:05
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 25 August 2090 at 08:58
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 1 September 2090 at 00:44
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 8 September 2090 at 22:44
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 1120 / 2073
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 1120 of Meeus index or 2073 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.32 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 40 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2090. It is 24 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 4 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 5 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠331.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠331.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠348.5°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 08:23. It is 15 days after previous perigee on 28 July 2090 at 18:43 in ♌ Leo. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 12 days, until point of next perigee on 26 August 2090 at 01:13 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 405 821 km
This apogee Moon is 405 821 km (252 165 mi) away from Earth. It is 413 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 888 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♓ Pisces at 01:17 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 13 days later on 26 August 2090 at 13:58 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
14 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 after southern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 6 August 2090 at 13:57 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.326°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.266° at the point of next northern standstill on 21 August 2090 at 05:49 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 25 August 2090 at 08:58 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.
