Waning
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 96% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 96% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 2 May 2007 at 10:09.
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 ∠7° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1796"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1796" and ∠1903".
Flower Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2007 after 27 days on 1 June 2007 at 01:04.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 10 May 2007 at 04:27
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 16 May 2007 at 19:27
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 23 May 2007 at 21:03
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 1 June 2007 at 01:04
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 90 / 1043
The Moon is 16 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 90 of Meeus index or 1043 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.33 days
Length of current 90 lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 51 minutes. It is 5 minutes longer than next lunation 91 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 53 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 16 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠4°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠4°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠19.8°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon after apogee
4 days after point of apogee on 30 April 2007 at 10:57 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 11 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 15 May 2007 at 15:10 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 399 050 km
Moon is 399 050 km (247 958 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 11 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 359 393 km (223 316 mi).
Moon after descending node
6 days after its descending node on 27 April 2007 at 15:27 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 7 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 11 May 2007 at 23:08 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
19 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
12 days after previous North standstill on 21 April 2007 at 13:36 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.446°. Next day the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.341° in the next southern standstill on 6 May 2007 at 04:22 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 12 days
After 12 days on 16 May 2007 at 19:27 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.