Waning
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 81% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 81% and getting smaller. The 19 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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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 29 May 2037 at 04:24.
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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1794"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1794" and ∠1892".
Flower Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2037 after 25 days on 27 June 2037 at 15:20.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 5 June 2037 at 22:49
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 13 June 2037 at 17:10
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 20 June 2037 at 13:45
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 27 June 2037 at 15:20
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 462 / 1415
The Moon is 19 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 462 of Meeus index or 1415 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.47 days
Length of current 462 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 16 minutes. It is 1 hour and 54 minutes longer than next lunation 463 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 28 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 41 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠258.7°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠258.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠292.3°. 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
8 days after point of perigee on 24 May 2037 at 14:45 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 3 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 6 June 2037 at 01:22 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 399 468 km
Moon is 399 468 km (248 218 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 3 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 141 km (251 122 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♑ Capricorn at 03:23 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from North to South. Moon will follow the southern part of its orbit for the next 13 days to meet ascending node on 16 June 2037 at 07:41 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
13 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is moving from the middle to the last part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day after previous South standstill on 31 May 2037 at 16:34 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-21.325°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠21.359° in the next northern standstill on 15 June 2037 at 01:37 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 11 days
After 11 days on 13 June 2037 at 17:10 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.