Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 72% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 72% and getting smaller. The 20 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 2 April 2007 at 17:15.
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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1822"
Lunar disc appears visually 5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1822" and ∠1916".
Pink Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2007 after 23 days on 2 May 2007 at 10:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 10 April 2007 at 18:04
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 17 April 2007 at 11:36
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 24 April 2007 at 06:36
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 2 May 2007 at 10:09
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 89 / 1042
The Moon is 20 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 89 of Meeus index or 1042 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.37 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 53 minutes. It is 1 hour and 2 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the 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 51 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 18 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠348.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠348.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠4°.
Moon after apogee
5 days after point of apogee on 3 April 2007 at 08:38 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 17 April 2007 at 05:55 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 393 425 km
The Moon is 393 425 km (244 463 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 138 km (221 915 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after descending node on 31 March 2007 at 11:41 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 14 April 2007 at 17:34 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
21 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 23:01 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.510°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.446° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 21 April 2007 at 13:36.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 17 April 2007 at 11:36 in ♈ Aries 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.
