Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 89% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 89% and getting smaller. The 18 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 29 April 2056 at 18:31.
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 ∠21° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1944"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1944" and ∠1903".
Pink Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2056 after 26 days on 29 May 2056 at 01:58.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 6 May 2056 at 13:30
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 14 May 2056 at 16:06
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 22 May 2056 at 11:50
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 29 May 2056 at 01:58
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 696 / 1649
The Moon is 18 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 696 of Meeus index or 1649 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.68 days
Length of current 696 lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 16 minutes. It is 1 hour and 18 minutes longer than next lunation 697 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 32 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 31 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠172.8°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠172.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠196°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 29 April 2056 at 14:48 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 12 May 2056 at 22:15 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 368 773 km
Moon is 368 773 km (229 145 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 10 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 547 km (252 617 mi).
Moon before descending node
10 days after its ascending node on 22 April 2056 at 10:02 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 2 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 4 May 2056 at 20:18 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
10 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days after previous North standstill on 21 April 2056 at 07:19 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠21.717°. Next day the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-21.812° in the next southern standstill on 3 May 2056 at 22:04 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 12 days
After 12 days on 14 May 2056 at 16:06 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.