Waning
Gibbous ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
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
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 2 minutes. It is 1 hour and 32 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 5 hours and 42 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 27 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠10°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠10°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠26.5°.
Moon after apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 21 July 2097 at 14:19 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 August 2097 at 01:35 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 387 412 km
The Moon is 387 412 km (240 727 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 915 km (224 262 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after descending node on 17 July 2097 at 10:55 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 31 July 2097 at 21:54 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
23 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, 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 22 July 2097 at 05:45 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.475°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.559° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 August 2097 at 00:09 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 7 August 2097 at 16:00 in ♌ Leo 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.
