Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 73% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 73% and getting smaller. The 20 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 28 March 2040 at 15:11.
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 ∠16° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1963"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1963" and ∠1919".
Worm Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2040 after 24 days on 27 April 2040 at 02:38.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 4 April 2040 at 14:06
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 11 April 2040 at 14:00
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 19 April 2040 at 13:37
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 27 April 2040 at 02:38
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 497 / 1450
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 497 of Meeus index or 1450 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.51 days
Length of current 497 lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 14 minutes. It is 1 hour and 14 minutes shorter than next lunation 498 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 30 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 39 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠53.5°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠53.5°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠86°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before perigee
12 days after point of apogee on 21 March 2040 at 11:22 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next perigee on 3 April 2040 at 20:39 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 365 219 km
Moon is 365 219 km (226 937 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next day until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 369 913 km (229 853 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after its descending node on 1 April 2040 at 17:18 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 12 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 14 April 2040 at 21:15 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
14 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days after previous North standstill on 21 March 2040 at 12:03 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠25.893°. Next day the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-26.010° in the next southern standstill on 4 April 2040 at 04:16 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 9 days
After 9 days on 11 April 2040 at 14:00 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.