Waning Gibbous Moon
Waning Gibbous MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waning Gibbous in Capricorn

Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 99% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

The 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 phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon is entering ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 9 June 2055 at 11:36.

Strawberry Moon before 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2055 after 28 days on 8 July 2055 at 22:11.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1865"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1865" and ∠1890".

Lunation 685 / 1638

The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 685 of Meeus index or 1638 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.47 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 18 minutes and it is 1 hour and 46 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 26 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 43 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠254.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠254.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠288.5°.

Moon after perigee

5 days since point of perigee on 5 June 2055 at 06:32 in ♎ Libra 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 17 June 2055 at 13:16 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 384 284 km

The Moon is 384 284 km (238 783 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 162 km (251 135 mi).

Moon before descending node

9 days after ascending node on 31 May 2055 at 13:01 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 13 June 2055 at 11:33 in ♒ Aquarius.

Moon before southern standstill

12 days since the last northern standstill on 29 May 2055 at 04:41 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.367° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-20.408° at the point of next southern standstill on 11 June 2055 at 02:05 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

9 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 14 days

In 14 days on 25 June 2055 at 00:15 in ♋ Cancer 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov