Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 75% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 75% and getting smaller. The 19 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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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 9 April 2039 at 02:53.
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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1966"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1913".
Pink Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2039 after 24 days on 8 May 2039 at 11:20.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 15 April 2039 at 18:07
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 23 April 2039 at 09:35
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 1 May 2039 at 14:07
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 8 May 2039 at 11:20
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 485 / 1438
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 485 of Meeus index or 1438 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.65 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 35 minutes. It is 28 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 51 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 12 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠120.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠120.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠151.8°.
Moon after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 10 April 2039 at 17:31 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 26 April 2039 at 06:54 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 364 580 km
The Moon is 364 580 km (226 540 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 022 km (252 290 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 11:46 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 14 days later on 27 April 2039 at 14:05 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 1 April 2039 at 20:16 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.377°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-24.485° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 April 2039 at 17:09 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 9 days
In 9 days on 23 April 2039 at 09:35 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.
