Waning
Gibbous ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 72% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 72% and getting smaller. The 20 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 2 September 2096 at 15:36.
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 ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1972"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1905".
Harvest Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2096 after 24 days on 2 October 2096 at 01:24.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 9 September 2096 at 10:17
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 16 September 2096 at 15:10
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 24 September 2096 at 18:14
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 2 October 2096 at 01:24
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 1195 / 2148
The Moon is 20 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1195 of Meeus index or 2148 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.51 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 10 minutes. It is 3 hours and 8 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 34 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 35 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠76.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠76.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠110.9°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 6 September 2096 at 10:00 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 22 September 2096 at 03:15 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 363 447 km
The Moon is 363 447 km (225 835 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 14 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 898 km (251 592 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♉ Taurus at 18:11 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 21 September 2096 at 09:31 in ♏ Scorpio.
New draconic month
At 18:11 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 28 August 2096 at 21:09 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.564°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.671° at the point of next northern standstill on 10 September 2096 at 21:55 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 9 days
In 9 days on 16 September 2096 at 15:10 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.
