Waning
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 69% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 69% and getting smaller. The 20 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 6 days on 20 May 2027 at 10:59.
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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1770"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1894".
Flower Moon before 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2027 after 23 days on 19 June 2027 at 00:44.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 28 May 2027 at 13:58
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 4 June 2027 at 19:40
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 11 June 2027 at 10:56
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ 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.
Lunation 338 / 1291
The Moon is 20 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 338 of Meeus index or 1291 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.36 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 42 minutes. It is 1 hour and 20 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 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 position on
True anomaly ∠308.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠308.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠330.4°.
Moon after apogee
1 day after point of apogee on 25 May 2027 at 15:13 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 June 2027 at 14:54 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 404 874 km
The Moon is 404 874 km (251 577 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 703 km (224 752 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♒ Aquarius at 15:22 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 8 June 2027 at 19:23 in ♌ Leo.
New draconic month
At 15:22 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 22 May 2027 at 08:52 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.162°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.143° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 June 2027 at 10:02 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 9 days
In 9 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.
