Waning Gibbous Moon
Waning Gibbous MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waning Gibbous in Capricorn

Waning Gibbous on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 83% and getting smaller. Lunar cycle is 18 days old.

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.

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 14 May 2033 at 10:43.

Flower Moon before 4 days

Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2033 after 25 days on 12 June 2033 at 23:19.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1895"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1895" and ∠1896".

Lunation 412 / 1365

The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 412 of Meeus index or 1365 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.37 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 50 minutes and it is 40 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2033. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit 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 3 hours and 54 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 15 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠25.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠25.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠46°.

Moon before perigee

8 days since point of apogee on 9 May 2033 at 16:25 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 25 May 2033 at 13:01 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 378 210 km

The Moon is 378 210 km (235 009 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 415 km (227 058 mi).

Moon before descending node

6 days after ascending node on 11 May 2033 at 17:56 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 25 May 2033 at 05:37 in ♈ Aries.

Moon after southern standstill

1 day since the last southern standstill on 16 May 2033 at 20:25 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.668° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.697° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 May 2033 at 17:10 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

6 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 9 days

In 9 days on 28 May 2033 at 11:36 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov