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Quarter ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 68% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 68% 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 19 April 2038 at 10:36.
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 ∠13° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1888"
Lunar disc appears visually 1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1888" and ∠1907".
Pink Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2038 after 24 days on 18 May 2038 at 18:23.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 26 April 2038 at 06:15
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 4 May 2038 at 09:19
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 12 May 2038 at 04:18
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 18 May 2038 at 18:23
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 473 / 1426
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 473 of Meeus index or 1426 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.69 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 37 minutes. It is 1 hour and 32 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 53 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 10 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠175.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠175.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠198.9°.
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 19 April 2038 at 04:30 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 2 May 2038 at 08:35 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 379 581 km
The Moon is 379 581 km (235 861 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 509 km (252 593 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♑ Capricorn at 11:37 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 14 days later on 9 May 2038 at 02:33 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 09:38 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-22.806°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠22.927° at the point of next standstill in ♋ Cancer on 9 May 2038 at 03:15.
Syzygy in 9 days
In 9 days on 4 May 2038 at 09:19 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.
