Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 68% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 68% and getting smaller. The 20 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 6 days on 11 April 2017 at 06:08.
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 ∠6° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1780"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1780" and ∠1911".
Pink Moon before 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2017 after 23 days on 10 May 2017 at 21:43.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 19 April 2017 at 09:57
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 26 April 2017 at 12:16
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 3 May 2017 at 02:47
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 10 May 2017 at 21:43
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 213 / 1166
The Moon is 20 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 213 of Meeus index or 1166 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.39 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 19 minutes. It is 1 hour and 51 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 25 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 44 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠321.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠321.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠340.4°.
Moon after apogee
2 days after point of apogee on 15 April 2017 at 10:05 in ♐ Sagittarius. 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 27 April 2017 at 16:18 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 402 685 km
The Moon is 402 685 km (250 217 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 325 km (223 274 mi).
Moon before descending node
10 days after ascending node on 7 April 2017 at 09:14 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 21 April 2017 at 22:30 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
10 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 13:12 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-19.095°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠19.187° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 30 April 2017 at 13:33.
Syzygy in 9 days
In 9 days on 26 April 2017 at 12:16 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.
