Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 84% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 84% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 10 May 2036 at 08:09.
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 ∠1775"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1775" and ∠1898".
Flower Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2036 after 25 days on 8 June 2036 at 21:02.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 18 May 2036 at 08:39
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 25 May 2036 at 19:17
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 1 June 2036 at 11:34
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 8 June 2036 at 21:02
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 449 / 1402
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 449 of Meeus index or 1402 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.41 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 44 minutes. It is 1 hour and 51 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 shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 9 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠292.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠292.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠318.9°.
Moon before perigee
13 days after point of perigee on 1 May 2036 at 08:26 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 16 May 2036 at 12:41 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 403 837 km
The Moon is 403 837 km (250 933 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 366 km (251 261 mi).
Moon before descending node
10 days after ascending node on 3 May 2036 at 21:32 in ♌ Leo. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 17 May 2036 at 18:30 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
10 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 05:17 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-19.758°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠19.831° at the point of next standstill in ♋ Cancer on 28 May 2036 at 03:06.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 25 May 2036 at 19:17 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.
