Waning
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 81% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 81% and getting smaller. The 19 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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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 6 April 2012 at 19:19.
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 ∠13° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1960"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1960" and ∠1915".
Pink Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2012 after 25 days on 6 May 2012 at 03:35.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 13 April 2012 at 10:50
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 21 April 2012 at 07:18
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 29 April 2012 at 09:58
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 6 May 2012 at 03:35
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 151 / 1104
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 151 of Meeus index or 1104 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.7 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 41 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2012. It is 12 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 57 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 6 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠142.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠142.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠168.7°.
Moon after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 7 April 2012 at 16:59 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 12 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 22 April 2012 at 13:49 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 365 637 km
The Moon is 365 637 km (227 196 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 422 km (252 539 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 00:47 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 24 April 2012 at 03:44 in ♊ Gemini.
New draconic month
At 00:47 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon at southern standstill
At 21:03 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-21.814°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠21.738° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 25 April 2012 at 05:37.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 21 April 2012 at 07:18 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.
