Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 84% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 84% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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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 16 May 2022 at 04:14.
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 ∠15° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1971"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1896".
Flower Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2022 after 25 days on 14 June 2022 at 11:52.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 22 May 2022 at 18:43
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 30 May 2022 at 11:30
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 7 June 2022 at 14:48
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 14 June 2022 at 11:52
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 276 / 1229
The Moon is 18 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 276 of Meeus index or 1229 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.63 days
Length of current 276 lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 2 minutes. It is 20 minutes shorter than next lunation 277 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 18 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 45 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠126°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠126°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠155.2°. 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 after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 17 May 2022 at 15:23 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 13 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 2 June 2022 at 01:14 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 363 588 km
Moon is 363 588 km (225 923 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 13 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 191 km (252 395 mi).
Moon after descending node
3 days after its descending node on 15 May 2022 at 23:44 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 9 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 29 May 2022 at 02:33 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
17 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon in southern standstill
At 01:21 on this date the Moon is meeting its South standstill point, when it will reach southern declination of ∠-26.964°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite northward direction to face North declination of ∠26.943° in its northern standstill point on 1 June 2022 at 22:32 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 10 days
After 10 days on 30 May 2022 at 11:30 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.