Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 87% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 87% 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 17 May 2030 at 11:19.
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 passing about ∠12° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1947"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1947" and ∠1896".
Flower Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2030 after 26 days on 15 June 2030 at 18:41.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 24 May 2030 at 04:57
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 1 June 2030 at 06:21
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 9 June 2030 at 03:36
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 15 June 2030 at 18:41
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 375 / 1328
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 375 of Meeus index or 1328 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.67 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 9 minutes. It is 56 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 25 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 38 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠165.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠165.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠189°.
Moon after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 17 May 2030 at 13:45 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 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 31 May 2030 at 06:14 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 368 084 km
The Moon is 368 084 km (228 717 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 469 km (252 568 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 18 May 2030 at 18:32 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 1 June 2030 at 17:30 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 18 May 2030 at 20:54 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.737°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.730° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 June 2030 at 20:22 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 1 June 2030 at 06:21 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.
