Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 98% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 98% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 20 May 2046 at 03:15.
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 ∠18° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1876"
Lunar disc appears visually 1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1876" and ∠1895".
Flower Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2046 after 28 days on 18 June 2046 at 13:10.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 27 May 2046 at 17:06
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 4 June 2046 at 15:22
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 11 June 2046 at 15:27
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 18 June 2046 at 13:10
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 573 / 1526
The Moon is 16 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 573 of Meeus index or 1526 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.52 days
Length of current 573 lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 26 minutes. It is 2 hours and 10 minutes longer than next lunation 574 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 18 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 51 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠239.2°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠239.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠274°. 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
4 days after point of perigee on 16 May 2046 at 23:31 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 28 May 2046 at 21:55 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 382 075 km
Moon is 382 075 km (237 410 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 7 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 334 km (251 241 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after its descending node on 12 May 2046 at 07:55 in ♌ Leo, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 25 May 2046 at 04:58 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
23 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon in southern standstill
At 18:34 on this date the Moon is meeting its South standstill point, when it will reach southern declination of ∠-26.705°. Next 14 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite northward direction to face North declination of ∠26.677° in its northern standstill point on 5 June 2046 at 05:17 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 14 days
After 14 days on 4 June 2046 at 15:22 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.