Waning
Gibbous ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
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Waning Gibbous 84% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 84% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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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 24 July 2097 at 09:54.
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 ∠23° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1850"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1850" and ∠1890".
Buck Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2097 after 25 days on 22 August 2097 at 23:52.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 1 August 2097 at 01:24
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 7 August 2097 at 16:00
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 14 August 2097 at 20:56
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 22 August 2097 at 23:52
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 1206 / 2159
The Moon is 18 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1206 of Meeus index or 2159 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.29 days
Length of current 1206 lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 2 minutes. It is 1 hour and 32 minutes shorter than next lunation 1207 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 42 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 27 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠10°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠10°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠26.5°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon after apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 21 July 2097 at 14:19 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 8 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 6 August 2097 at 01:35 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 387 412 km
Moon is 387 412 km (240 727 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 8 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 360 915 km (224 262 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after its descending node on 17 July 2097 at 10:55 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 31 July 2097 at 21:54 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
23 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
6 days after previous South standstill on 22 July 2097 at 05:45 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-27.475°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠27.559° in the next northern standstill on 5 August 2097 at 00:09 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 10 days
After 10 days on 7 August 2097 at 16:00 in ♌ Leo, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.