Waning Gibbous Moon
Waning Gibbous MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waning Gibbous in Sagittarius

Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 96% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

The 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 phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 20 May 2027 at 10:59.

Flower Moon before 2 days

Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2027 after 27 days on 19 June 2027 at 00:44.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1785"

Lunar disc appears visually 6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1785" and ∠1895".

Lunation 338 / 1291

The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 338 of Meeus index or 1291 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.36 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 42 minutes and it is 1 hour and 20 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit 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 2 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 7 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠308.6°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠308.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠330.4°.

Moon before apogee

12 days since point of perigee on 9 May 2027 at 20:07 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 25 May 2027 at 15:13 in ♑ Capricorn.

Distance to Moon 401 583 km

The Moon is 401 583 km (249 532 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 801 km (251 532 mi).

Moon before ascending node

9 days after descending node on 12 May 2027 at 17:03 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 26 May 2027 at 15:22 in ♒ Aquarius.

Moon at southern standstill

At 08:52 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-27.162°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠27.143° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 5 June 2027 at 10:02.

Draconic month

22 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 13 days

In 13 days on 4 June 2027 at 19:40 in ♊ Gemini 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov