Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 83% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 83% 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 25 April 2032 at 15:10.
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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1935"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1935" and ∠1905".
Pink Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2032 after 25 days on 25 May 2032 at 02:37.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 2 May 2032 at 16:02
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 9 May 2032 at 13:36
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 17 May 2032 at 09:43
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 25 May 2032 at 02:37
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 399 / 1352
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 399 of Meeus index or 1352 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.46 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 56 minutes. It is 1 hour shorter 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 48 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 21 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠44.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠44.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠73.2°.
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of apogee on 19 April 2032 at 03:02 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 3 May 2032 at 20:49 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 370 478 km
The Moon is 370 478 km (230 204 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 512 km (229 604 mi).
Moon after ascending node
3 days after ascending node on 25 April 2032 at 21:52 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 8 May 2032 at 20:11 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
3 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, 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 28 April 2032 at 22:45 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.640°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.649° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 May 2032 at 22:35 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 9 May 2032 at 13:36 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.
