Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 76% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 76% and getting smaller. The 19 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 18 April 2011 at 02:44.
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 is entering ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1877"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1877" and ∠1909".
Pink Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2011 after 24 days on 17 May 2011 at 11:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 25 April 2011 at 02:47
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 3 May 2011 at 06:51
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 10 May 2011 at 20:33
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 17 May 2011 at 11:09
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 139 / 1092
The Moon is 19 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 139 of Meeus index or 1092 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.68 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 18 minutes. It is 2 hours and 6 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 3 hours and 34 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 29 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠190.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠190.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠216.7°.
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 17 April 2011 at 05:59 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 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 29 April 2011 at 18:02 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 381 955 km
The Moon is 381 955 km (237 336 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 043 km (252 303 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 01:05 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 6 May 2011 at 14:54 in ♊ Gemini.
New draconic month
At 01:05 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 21 April 2011 at 13:40 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.498°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.421° at the point of next northern standstill on 6 May 2011 at 03:54 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 3 May 2011 at 06:51 in ♉ Taurus 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.
