Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 69% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 69% and getting smaller. The 20 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 10 April 2036 at 20:22.
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 is entering ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1778"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1778" and ∠1911".
Pink Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2036 after 23 days on 10 May 2036 at 08:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 18 April 2036 at 14:06
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 26 April 2036 at 09:33
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 3 May 2036 at 05:54
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 10 May 2036 at 08:09
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 448 / 1401
The Moon is 20 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 448 of Meeus index or 1401 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.53 days
Length of current 448 lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 36 minutes. It is 2 hours and 52 minutes longer than next lunation 449 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 8 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 6 hours and 1 minute longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠258.5°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠258.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠292.8°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of perigee on 6 April 2036 at 09:36 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 2 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 18 April 2036 at 17:40 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 403 046 km
Moon is 403 046 km (250 441 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 2 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 135 km (251 118 mi).
Moon before descending node
9 days after its ascending node on 6 April 2036 at 19:59 in ♌ Leo, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 4 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 20 April 2036 at 16:14 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
9 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon in southern standstill
At 20:29 on this date the Moon is meeting its South standstill point, when it will reach southern declination of ∠-19.540°. Next 14 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite northward direction to face North declination of ∠19.658° in its northern standstill point on 30 April 2036 at 19:06 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 9 days
After 9 days on 26 April 2036 at 09:33 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.