Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 80% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 80% and getting smaller. The 19 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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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 15 April 2014 at 07:42.
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 ∠22° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1945"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1945" and ∠1910".
Pink Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2014 after 25 days on 14 May 2014 at 19:16.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 22 April 2014 at 07:52
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 29 April 2014 at 06:14
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 7 May 2014 at 03:15
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 14 May 2014 at 19:16
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 176 / 1129
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 176 of Meeus index or 1129 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.48 days
Length of current 176 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 30 minutes. It is 56 minutes shorter than next lunation 177 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 14 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 55 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠46.9°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠46.9°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠76.9°. 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 before perigee
10 days after point of apogee on 8 April 2014 at 14:52 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 3 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 23 April 2014 at 00:27 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 368 587 km
Moon is 368 587 km (229 029 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 3 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 369 765 km (229 761 mi).
Moon after ascending node
3 days after its ascending node on 15 April 2014 at 13:22 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 8 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 28 April 2014 at 11:36 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
3 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon in southern standstill
At 12:55 on this date the Moon is meeting its South standstill point, when it will reach southern declination of ∠-18.946°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite northward direction to face North declination of ∠18.961° in its northern standstill point on 2 May 2014 at 15:59 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 9 days
After 9 days on 29 April 2014 at 06:14 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.