Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 93% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 93% 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 12 May 2025 at 16:56.
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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1803"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1803" and ∠1898".
Flower Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2025 after 26 days on 11 June 2025 at 07:44.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 20 May 2025 at 11:59
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 27 May 2025 at 03:02
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 3 June 2025 at 03:41
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 11 June 2025 at 07:44
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 313 / 1266
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 313 of Meeus index or 1266 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.31 days
Length of current 313 lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 31 minutes. It is 2 minutes longer than next lunation 314 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 13 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 56 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠2.3°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠2.3°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠17.8°. 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 apogee
4 days after point of apogee on 11 May 2025 at 00:49 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 26 May 2025 at 01:37 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 397 477 km
Moon is 397 477 km (246 981 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 10 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 359 023 km (223 087 mi).
Moon before ascending node
7 days after its descending node on 7 May 2025 at 23:44 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 6 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 22 May 2025 at 08:05 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
20 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon in southern standstill
At 18:44 on this date the Moon is meeting its South standstill point, when it will reach southern declination of ∠-28.484°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite northward direction to face North declination of ∠28.442° in its northern standstill point on 28 May 2025 at 16:16 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 11 days
After 11 days on 27 May 2025 at 03:02 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.