Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 94% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 94% 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 17 May 2049 at 11:13.
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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1962"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1962" and ∠1896".
Flower Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2049 after 27 days on 15 June 2049 at 19:26.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 24 May 2049 at 02:54
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 31 May 2049 at 14:00
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 8 June 2049 at 17:56
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 15 June 2049 at 19:26
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 610 / 1563
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 610 of Meeus index or 1563 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.58 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 49 minutes. It is 1 hour and 1 minute 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 5 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 58 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠102.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠102.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠136.3°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 19:18. It is 11 days after previous apogee on 7 May 2049 at 22:34 in ♋ Cancer. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 16 days, until point of next apogee on 4 June 2049 at 14:39 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 363 447 km
This perigee Moon is 363 447 km (225 835 mi) away from Earth. It is 939 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 6 909 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 18 May 2049 at 07:42 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 31 May 2049 at 11:41 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 18 May 2049 at 21:47 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.086°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.085° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 June 2049 at 04:32 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 31 May 2049 at 14:00 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.
