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 93% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 17 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 ∠8° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 25 May 2032 at 02:37.

Flower Moon before 2 days

Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2032 after 26 days on 23 June 2032 at 11:32.

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 ∠1944"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1944" and ∠1893".

Lunation 400 / 1353

The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 400 of Meeus index or 1353 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.5 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 56 minutes and it is 1 hour and 13 minutes shorter 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 48 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 21 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠73.2°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠73.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠108.4°.

Moon before perigee

10 days since point of apogee on 16 May 2032 at 22:18 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 29 May 2032 at 02:49 in ♒ Aquarius.

Distance to Moon 368 689 km

The Moon is 368 689 km (229 093 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 645 km (228 444 mi).

Moon after ascending node

4 days after ascending node on 23 May 2032 at 06:27 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 5 June 2032 at 02:41 in ♉ Taurus.

Moon after southern standstill

1 day since the last southern standstill on 26 May 2032 at 06:23 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.672° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.688° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 June 2032 at 07:17 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

4 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 11 days

In 11 days on 8 June 2032 at 01:32 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