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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
Length of current 473 lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 37 minutes. It is 1 hour and 32 minutes longer than next lunation 474 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 53 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 10 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠175.3°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠175.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠198.9°. 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 after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 19 April 2038 at 04:30 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 2 May 2038 at 08:35 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 379 581 km
Moon is 379 581 km (235 861 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 7 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 509 km (252 593 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♑ Capricorn at 11:37 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from North to South. Moon will follow the southern part of its orbit for the next 14 days to meet ascending node on 9 May 2038 at 02:33 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
12 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is moving from the middle to the last part of it.
Moon in southern standstill
At 09:38 on this date the Moon is meeting its South standstill point, when it will reach southern declination of ∠-22.806°. Next 14 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite northward direction to face North declination of ∠22.927° in its northern standstill point on 9 May 2038 at 03:15 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 9 days
After 9 days on 4 May 2038 at 09:19 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.