Waning
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 77% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 77% and getting smaller. The 19 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 25 May 2051 at 17:35.
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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠6° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1906"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1906" and ∠1893".
Flower Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2051 after 24 days on 24 June 2051 at 06:14.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 2 June 2051 at 02:15
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 8 June 2051 at 18:56
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 16 June 2051 at 05:55
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 24 June 2051 at 06:14
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 635 / 1588
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 635 of Meeus index or 1588 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.35 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 27 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2051. It is 46 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 4 hours and 17 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 52 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠23.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠23.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠43.2°.
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of apogee on 21 May 2051 at 04:56 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 June 2051 at 01:20 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 376 127 km
The Moon is 376 127 km (233 714 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 806 km (226 680 mi).
Moon before descending node
7 days after ascending node on 23 May 2051 at 02:03 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 5 June 2051 at 14:37 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
7 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 27 May 2051 at 03:09 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.213°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.227° at the point of next northern standstill on 9 June 2051 at 02:11 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 9 days
In 9 days on 8 June 2051 at 18:56 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.
