Waning
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 87% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 87% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 26 May 2040 at 11:47.
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 ∠21° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1893".
Flower Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2040 after 26 days on 24 June 2040 at 19:19.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 2 June 2040 at 02:17
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 9 June 2040 at 18:03
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 17 June 2040 at 21:32
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 24 June 2040 at 19:19
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 499 / 1452
The Moon is 18 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 499 of Meeus index or 1452 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.61 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 35 minutes. It is 37 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 1 hour and 51 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 12 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠122.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠122.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠152°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 28 May 2040 at 02:22 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 12 June 2040 at 14:18 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 363 313 km
The Moon is 363 313 km (225 752 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 14 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 115 km (252 348 mi).
Moon after descending node
3 days after descending node on 26 May 2040 at 08:27 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 8 June 2040 at 10:51 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
17 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 28 May 2040 at 18:19 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.181°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.166° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 June 2040 at 10:37 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 9 June 2040 at 18:03 in ♊ Gemini 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.
