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

Waning Gibbous in Sagittarius

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 ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.

2 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 16 May 2041 at 00:52.

Flower Moon before 2 days

Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2041 after 26 days on 14 June 2041 at 10:59.

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 ∠1924"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1924" and ∠1896".

Lunation 511 / 1464

The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 511 of Meeus index or 1464 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.47 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 10 minutes and it is 1 hour and 11 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 1 hour and 34 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 35 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠56.2°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠56.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠88.5°.

Moon before perigee

9 days since point of apogee on 8 May 2041 at 18:43 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 22 May 2041 at 01:18 in ♒ Aquarius.

Distance to Moon 372 464 km

The Moon is 372 464 km (231 438 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 566 km (229 638 mi).

Moon after descending node

3 days after descending node on 15 May 2041 at 06:22 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 28 May 2041 at 04:17 in ♉ Taurus.

Moon before southern standstill

13 days since the last northern standstill on 4 May 2041 at 19:15 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.379° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-27.362° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 May 2041 at 01:39 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

17 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 11 days

In 11 days on 29 May 2041 at 22:56 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