Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 80% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 80% and getting smaller. The 19 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 9 April 2028 at 10:27.
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 passing about ∠17° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1849"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1849" and ∠1913".
Pink Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2028 after 25 days on 8 May 2028 at 19:49.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 16 April 2028 at 16:37
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 24 April 2028 at 19:47
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 2 May 2028 at 02:26
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 8 May 2028 at 19:49
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 349 / 1302
The Moon is 19 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 349 of Meeus index or 1302 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
Length of current 349 lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 16 minutes. It is 2 hours and 47 minutes longer than next lunation 350 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 32 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 31 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠212.1°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠212.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠243.3°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 7 April 2028 at 16:02 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 19 April 2028 at 15:13 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 387 654 km
Moon is 387 654 km (240 877 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 6 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 100 km (251 717 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after its descending node on 3 April 2028 at 22:08 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 16 April 2028 at 17:56 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
23 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon in southern standstill
At 18:51 on this date the Moon is meeting its South standstill point, when it will reach southern declination of ∠-26.138°. Next 14 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite northward direction to face North declination of ∠26.020° in its northern standstill point on 28 April 2028 at 08:04 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 11 days
After 11 days on 24 April 2028 at 19:47 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.