Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 98% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 98% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 1 June 2007 at 01:04.
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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1823"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1823" and ∠1892".
Strawberry Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2007 after 28 days on 30 June 2007 at 13:49.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 8 June 2007 at 11:43
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 15 June 2007 at 03:13
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 22 June 2007 at 13:15
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 30 June 2007 at 13:49
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 91 / 1044
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 91 of Meeus index or 1044 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.32 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 46 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2007. It is 1 hour and 5 minutes shorter 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 4 hours and 58 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 11 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠19.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠19.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠38.7°.
Moon after apogee
5 days after point of apogee on 27 May 2007 at 22:01 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 12 June 2007 at 17:07 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 393 236 km
The Moon is 393 236 km (244 346 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 778 km (226 041 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after descending node on 24 May 2007 at 17:16 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 8 June 2007 at 00:35 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 09:31 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.219°. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.212° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 15 June 2007 at 08:31.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 15 June 2007 at 03:13 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.
