Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 87% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 87% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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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 1 May 2026 at 17:23.
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 ∠1769"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1902".
Flower Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2026 after 25 days on 31 May 2026 at 08:45.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 9 May 2026 at 21:10
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 16 May 2026 at 20:01
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 23 May 2026 at 11:11
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 31 May 2026 at 08:45
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 325 / 1278
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 325 of Meeus index or 1278 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.34 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 9 minutes. It is 1 hour and 16 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 4 hours and 35 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 34 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠330.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠330.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠347.5°.
Moon after apogee
1 day after point of apogee on 4 May 2026 at 22:30 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 17 May 2026 at 13:48 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 405 126 km
The Moon is 405 126 km (251 734 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 074 km (222 497 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after descending node on 26 April 2026 at 14:36 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 11 May 2026 at 04:36 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
21 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 11:35 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.109°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.051° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 18 May 2026 at 19:38.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 16 May 2026 at 20:01 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.
