Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 84% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 84% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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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 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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1966"
Lunar disc appears visually 3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1909".
Pink Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2030 after 25 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 18 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 after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 19 April 2030 at 03:44 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 4 May 2030 at 03:39 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 364 556 km
The Moon is 364 556 km (226 525 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 364 km (252 503 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 09:46 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 5 May 2030 at 11:55 in ♊ Gemini.
New draconic month
At 09:46 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon at southern standstill
At 11:15 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-22.812°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠22.748° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 5 May 2030 at 14:44.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 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.
