Waning
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 82% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 82% and getting smaller. The 19 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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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 11 April 2055 at 17:58.
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 passing about ∠16° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1884"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1884" and ∠1912".
Pink Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2055 after 25 days on 11 May 2055 at 02:31.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 18 April 2055 at 18:35
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 26 April 2055 at 23:17
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 4 May 2055 at 11:10
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 11 May 2055 at 02:31
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 683 / 1636
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 683 of Meeus index or 1636 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.68 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 16 minutes. It is 2 hours and 36 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 32 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 31 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠194.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠194.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠221.6°.
Moon after perigee
4 days after point of perigee on 10 April 2055 at 17:08 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 23 April 2055 at 01:56 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 380 393 km
The Moon is 380 393 km (236 365 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 780 km (252 140 mi).
Moon before descending node
8 days after ascending node on 7 April 2055 at 10:16 in ♌ Leo. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 20 April 2055 at 05:33 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
8 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
10 days since the previous standstill on 4 April 2055 at 16:13 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.958°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-20.056° at the point of next southern standstill on 17 April 2055 at 06:08 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 26 April 2055 at 23:17 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.
