Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 86% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 86% 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 22 April 2035 at 13:21.
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 ∠20° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1906".
Pink Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2035 after 25 days on 22 May 2035 at 04:26.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 30 April 2035 at 16:54
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 7 May 2035 at 20:04
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 14 May 2035 at 10:28
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 22 May 2035 at 04:26
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 436 / 1389
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 436 of Meeus index or 1389 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.38 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 6 minutes. It is 1 hour and 49 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 38 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 31 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠318.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠318.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠338.4°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 22:33. It is 15 days after previous perigee on 11 April 2035 at 01:12 in ♉ Taurus. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 12 days, until point of next perigee on 9 May 2035 at 03:09 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 405 356 km
This apogee Moon is 405 356 km (251 877 mi) away from Earth. It is 52 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 353 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
7 days after ascending node on 18 April 2035 at 17:57 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 3 May 2035 at 06:54 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
7 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
12 days since the previous standstill on 13 April 2035 at 15:55 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.513°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-18.609° at the point of next southern standstill on 27 April 2035 at 17:20 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 7 May 2035 at 20:04 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.
