Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 93% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 93% 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 13 May 2052 at 19:00.
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 ∠4° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1782"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1782" and ∠1897".
Flower Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2052 after 26 days on 12 June 2052 at 10:27.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 21 May 2052 at 18:15
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 28 May 2052 at 10:50
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 4 June 2052 at 06:49
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 12 June 2052 at 10:27
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 647 / 1600
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 647 of Meeus index or 1600 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.31 days
Length of current 647 lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 29 minutes. It is 29 minutes longer than next lunation 648 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 15 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 54 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠352.1°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠352.1°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠7.2°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon after apogee
2 days after point of apogee on 13 May 2052 at 20:41 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 11 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 28 May 2052 at 00:39 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 402 251 km
Moon is 402 251 km (249 947 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 11 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 357 494 km (222 136 mi).
Moon after ascending node
6 days after its ascending node on 10 May 2052 at 10:36 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 8 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 24 May 2052 at 19:07 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
6 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon in southern standstill
At 13:00 on this date the Moon is meeting its South standstill point, when it will reach southern declination of ∠-18.443°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite northward direction to face North declination of ∠18.475° in its northern standstill point on 29 May 2052 at 16:35 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 11 days
After 11 days on 28 May 2052 at 10:50 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.