Waning Gibbous Moon
Waning Gibbous MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waning Gibbous in Capricorn

Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 96% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

The 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 phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 31 May 2026 at 08:45.

Flower Moon before 2 days

Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2026 after 27 days on 29 June 2026 at 23:57.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1772"

Lunar disc appears visually 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1772" and ∠1892".

Lunation 326 / 1279

The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 326 of Meeus index or 1279 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.29 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 6 hours and 53 minutes and it is 4 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit 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 51 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 18 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠347.5°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠347.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠2.5°.

Moon after apogee

1 day since point of apogee on 1 June 2026 at 04:32 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 14 June 2026 at 23:18 in ♊ Gemini.

Distance to Moon 404 576 km

The Moon is 404 576 km (251 392 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 196 km (221 951 mi).

Moon before ascending node

9 days after descending node on 23 May 2026 at 15:26 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 7 June 2026 at 06:19 in ♓ Pisces.

Moon after southern standstill

1 day since the last southern standstill on 1 June 2026 at 16:59 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.988° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.989° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 June 2026 at 05:29 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

22 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 12 days

In 12 days on 15 June 2026 at 02:54 in ♊ Gemini 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov