Waning
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 89% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 89% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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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 7 June 2028 at 06:09.
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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1795"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1795" and ∠1890".
Strawberry Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2028 after 26 days on 6 July 2028 at 18:11.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 15 June 2028 at 04:27
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 22 June 2028 at 18:27
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 29 June 2028 at 12:10
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 6 July 2028 at 18:11
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 351 / 1304
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 351 of Meeus index or 1304 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.42 days
Length of current 351 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 11 minutes. It is 1 hour and 37 minutes longer than next lunation 352 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 33 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 36 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠278.2°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠278.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠308.1°. 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 before apogee
10 days after point of perigee on 31 May 2028 at 06:18 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 3 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 14 June 2028 at 04:46 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 399 368 km
Moon is 399 368 km (248 156 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 3 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 222 km (251 172 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♑ Capricorn at 02:18 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from South to North. Moon will follow the northern part of its orbit for the next 13 days to meet descending node on 24 June 2028 at 06:42 in ♋ Cancer.
New draconic month
At 02:18 on this date the Moon is completing its previous draconic month and is entering the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
3 days after previous South standstill on 7 June 2028 at 11:55 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-25.908°. Next 11 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠25.920° in the next northern standstill on 21 June 2028 at 22:15 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 12 days
After 12 days on 22 June 2028 at 18:27 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.