Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 75% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 75% 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 8 April 2020 at 02:35.
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 ∠23° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1900"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1900" and ∠1913".
Pink Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2020 after 24 days on 7 May 2020 at 10:45.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 14 April 2020 at 22:56
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 23 April 2020 at 02:26
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 30 April 2020 at 20:38
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 7 May 2020 at 10:45
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 250 / 1203
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 250 of Meeus index or 1203 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.71 days
Length of current 250 lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 58 minutes. It is 1 hour and 45 minutes longer than next lunation 251 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 14 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 49 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠177.9°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠177.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠201.8°. 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
4 days after point of perigee on 7 April 2020 at 18:08 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 8 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 20 April 2020 at 19:01 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 377 329 km
Moon is 377 329 km (234 461 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 8 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 463 km (252 564 mi).
Moon before descending node
11 days after its ascending node on 31 March 2020 at 16:51 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 13 April 2020 at 02:58 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
11 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days after previous North standstill on 1 April 2020 at 09:12 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠23.702°. Next day the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-23.805° in the next southern standstill on 13 April 2020 at 21:03 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 10 days
After 10 days on 23 April 2020 at 02:26 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.