Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 81% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 81% and getting smaller. The 19 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 9 May 2047 at 18:24.
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 ∠14° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1902"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1902" and ∠1899".
Flower Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2047 after 25 days on 8 June 2047 at 02:05.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 16 May 2047 at 16:46
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 24 May 2047 at 20:27
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 1 June 2047 at 11:54
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 8 June 2047 at 02:05
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 585 / 1538
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 585 of Meeus index or 1538 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.66 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 48 minutes. It is 1 hour and 40 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 4 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 59 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠185.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠185.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠210.1°.
Moon after perigee
4 days after point of perigee on 9 May 2047 at 02:43 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 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 21 May 2047 at 20:02 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 376 872 km
The Moon is 376 872 km (234 177 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 202 km (252 402 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♑ Capricorn at 18:17 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 28 May 2047 at 08:07 in ♋ Cancer.
New draconic month
At 18:17 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 11 May 2047 at 19:59 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.371°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.322° at the point of next northern standstill on 26 May 2047 at 04:23 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 24 May 2047 at 20:27 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.
