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 88% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 18 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 ∠14° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 21 May 2073 at 10:02.

Flower Moon before 3 days

Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2073 after 26 days on 19 June 2073 at 18:44.

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 ∠1864"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1864" and ∠1894".

Lunation 907 / 1860

The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 907 of Meeus index or 1860 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.57 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 36 minutes and it is 2 hours and 11 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Lunation length longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 52 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 11 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠218.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠218.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠250°.

Moon after perigee

5 days since point of perigee on 19 May 2073 at 08:24 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 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 31 May 2073 at 06:54 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 384 606 km

The Moon is 384 606 km (238 983 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 858 km (251 567 mi).

Moon before descending node

9 days after ascending node on 14 May 2073 at 21:24 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 27 May 2073 at 15:39 in ♒ Aquarius.

Moon at southern standstill

At 00:48 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-19.521°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠19.587° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 7 June 2073 at 13:47.

Draconic month

9 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 12 days

In 12 days on 5 June 2073 at 19:51 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