Waning
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 92% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 92% and getting smaller. The 17 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 18 April 2049 at 01:04.
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 is entering ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1940"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1940" and ∠1909".
Pink Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2049 after 26 days on 17 May 2049 at 11:13.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 24 April 2049 at 21:11
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 2 May 2049 at 00:11
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 10 May 2049 at 01:57
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 17 May 2049 at 11:13
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 609 / 1562
The Moon is 17 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 609 of Meeus index or 1562 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.52 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 32 minutes. It is 1 hour and 17 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 12 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 57 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠67°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠67°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠102.4°.
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of apogee on 10 April 2049 at 03:32 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 22 April 2049 at 11:15 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 369 506 km
The Moon is 369 506 km (229 600 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 462 km (228 952 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 23:57 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 4 May 2049 at 04:33 in ♊ Gemini.
New draconic month
At 23:57 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before southern standstill
12 days since the previous standstill on 7 April 2049 at 13:42 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.212°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-22.138° at the point of next southern standstill on 21 April 2049 at 13:59 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 2 May 2049 at 00:11 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.
