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 97% 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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.

1 day after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 27 June 2067 at 02:52.

Strawberry Moon before 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2067 after 27 days on 26 July 2067 at 09:58.

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 4.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1887".

Lunation 834 / 1787

The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 834 of Meeus index or 1787 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.61 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 35 minutes and it is 45 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 51 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 12 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠132.6°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠132.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠159.9°.

Moon at perigee

Moon is at perigee at 09:11 about 12 days since last apogee on 16 June 2067 at 03:04 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 13 July 2067 at 14:29 in ♌ Leo.

Distance to Moon 359 568 km

This perigee Moon is 359 568 km (223 425 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 940 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 10 788 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.

Moon after ascending node

2 days after ascending node on 26 June 2067 at 02:38 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 9 July 2067 at 01:59 in ♊ Gemini.

Moon after southern standstill

2 days since the last southern standstill on 25 June 2067 at 22:32 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.109° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.104° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 July 2067 at 21:14 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 12 days

In 12 days on 11 July 2067 at 11:16 in ♋ Cancer 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