Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 88% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 88% 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 17 May 2011 at 11:09.
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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1867"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1867" and ∠1896".
Flower Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2011 after 26 days on 15 June 2011 at 20:13.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 24 May 2011 at 18:52
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 1 June 2011 at 21:03
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 9 June 2011 at 02:11
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 15 June 2011 at 20:13
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 140 / 1093
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 140 of Meeus index or 1093 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
Length of current 140 lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 12 minutes. It is 2 hours and 21 minutes longer than next lunation 141 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 28 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 35 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠216.7°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠216.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠248.4°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 15 May 2011 at 11:18 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 27 May 2011 at 09:58 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 383 827 km
Moon is 383 827 km (238 499 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 6 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 006 km (251 659 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after its ascending node on 19 May 2011 at 09:03 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 13 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 2 June 2011 at 20:21 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
1 day after beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day after previous South standstill on 18 May 2011 at 23:26 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-23.403°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠23.393° in the next northern standstill on 2 June 2011 at 09:54 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 12 days
After 12 days on 1 June 2011 at 21:03 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.