Waning
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 97% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 97% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 18 April 2030 at 03:20.
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 ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1972"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1910".
Pink Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2030 after 27 days on 17 May 2030 at 11:19.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 24 April 2030 at 18:39
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 2 May 2030 at 14:12
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 10 May 2030 at 17:11
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 17 May 2030 at 11:19
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 374 / 1327
The Moon is 16 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 374 of Meeus index or 1327 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.67 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 10 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2030. It is 1 minute longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 26 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 37 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠139°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠139°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠165.9°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 03:44. It is 12 days after previous apogee on 6 April 2030 at 18:47 in ♉ Taurus. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 14 days, until point of next apogee on 4 May 2030 at 03:39 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 358 706 km
This perigee Moon is 358 706 km (222 890 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 802 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 11 650 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
11 days after descending node on 8 April 2030 at 08:29 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 21 April 2030 at 09:46 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
25 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 8 April 2030 at 08:53 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.881°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-22.812° at the point of next southern standstill on 21 April 2030 at 11:15 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 13 days
In 13 days on 2 May 2030 at 14:12 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.
