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 71% 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 14 April 2090 at 09:22.

Pink Moon before 5 days

Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2090 after 24 days on 13 May 2090 at 19:01.

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 ∠1824"

Lunar disc appears visually 4.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1824" and ∠1910".

Lunation 1116 / 2069

The Moon is 20 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1116 of Meeus index or 2069 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.64 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 24 minutes and it is 3 hours and 7 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 2 hours and 40 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 23 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠214.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠214.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠246°.

Moon before apogee

6 days since point of perigee on 12 April 2090 at 12:39 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 24 April 2090 at 10:58 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 393 025 km

The Moon is 393 025 km (244 214 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 000 km (251 655 mi).

Moon after ascending node

6 days after ascending node on 12 April 2090 at 16:39 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 26 April 2090 at 12:13 in ♓ Pisces.

Moon at southern standstill

At 02:47 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-18.213°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠18.290° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 3 May 2090 at 15:57.

Draconic month

6 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 10 days

In 10 days on 29 April 2090 at 19:12 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