Waning
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 90% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 90% and getting smaller. The 17 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 16 April 2022 at 18:55.
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 ∠6° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1963"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1963" and ∠1910".
Pink Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2022 after 26 days on 16 May 2022 at 04:14.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 23 April 2022 at 11:56
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 30 April 2022 at 20:28
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 9 May 2022 at 00:21
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 16 May 2022 at 04:14
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 275 / 1228
The Moon is 17 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 275 of Meeus index or 1228 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 4 minutes. It is 58 minutes shorter 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 1 hour and 20 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 43 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠89.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠89.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠126°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 15:16. It is 11 days after previous apogee on 7 April 2022 at 19:11 in ♊ Gemini. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 16 days, until point of next apogee on 5 May 2022 at 12:46 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 365 143 km
This perigee Moon is 365 143 km (226 889 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 635 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 5 213 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 18 April 2022 at 14:01 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 1 May 2022 at 19:53 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 8 April 2022 at 08:15 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.880°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.937° at the point of next southern standstill on 21 April 2022 at 17:41 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 30 April 2022 at 20:28 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.
