Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 89% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 89% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 26 May 2002 at 11:51.
Moonrise and moonset
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 in ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1845"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1845" and ∠1893".
Flower Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2002 after 26 days on 24 June 2002 at 21:42.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 3 June 2002 at 00:05
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 10 June 2002 at 23:47
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 18 June 2002 at 00:29
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 24 June 2002 at 21:42
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.
Lunation 29 / 982
The Moon is 18 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 29 of Meeus index or 982 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.54 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 1 minute. It is 2 hours and 21 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the 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 17 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 46 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠233.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠233.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠268.1°.
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 23 May 2002 at 15:31 in ♎ Libra. 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 4 June 2002 at 12:58 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 388 501 km
The Moon is 388 501 km (241 403 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 524 km (251 360 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after descending node on 27 May 2002 at 09:39 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 10 June 2002 at 20:00 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 02:39 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-25.056°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠25.058° at the point of next standstill in ♋ Cancer on 12 June 2002 at 14:17.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 10 June 2002 at 23:47 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.
