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 68% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 20 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.

5 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 10 April 2066 at 10:03.

Pink Moon before 5 days

Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2066 after 24 days on 9 May 2066 at 18:58.

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 ∠1970"

Lunar disc appears visually 3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1912".

Lunation 819 / 1772

The Moon is 20 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 819 of Meeus index or 1772 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.59 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 16 minutes and it is 53 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 32 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 31 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠96.6°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠96.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠132.1°.

Moon after perigee

2 days since point of perigee on 12 April 2066 at 22:32 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 28 April 2066 at 19:52 in ♊ Gemini.

Distance to Moon 363 809 km

The Moon is 363 809 km (226 060 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 13 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 408 km (251 909 mi).

Moon before ascending node

12 days after descending node on 2 April 2066 at 22:54 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 16 April 2066 at 00:07 in ♑ Capricorn.

Moon after southern standstill

1 day since the last southern standstill on 14 April 2066 at 10:46 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.901° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.799° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 April 2066 at 05:54 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 9 days

In 9 days on 24 April 2066 at 12:29 in ♉ Taurus 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