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 95% 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 ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 19 May 2095 at 09:21.

Flower Moon before 2 days

Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2095 after 27 days on 17 June 2095 at 22:05.

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 ∠1853"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1853" and ∠1895".

Lunation 1179 / 2132

The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1179 of Meeus index or 2132 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.37 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 52 minutes and it is 1 hour and 4 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 3 hours and 52 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 17 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠26°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠26° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠47.3°.

Moon after apogee

6 days since point of apogee on 14 May 2095 at 12:49 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 30 May 2095 at 08:46 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 386 880 km

The Moon is 386 880 km (240 396 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 631 km (227 193 mi).

Moon in descending node

Moon is in descending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 00:04 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 2 June 2095 at 21:43 in ♊ Gemini.

Moon before southern standstill

13 days since the last northern standstill on 8 May 2095 at 02:21 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.867° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-24.914° at the point of next southern standstill on 22 May 2095 at 16:48 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 11 days

In 11 days on 2 June 2095 at 09:58 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