Waning
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 92% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 92% 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 27 April 2059 at 19:17.
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 ∠12° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1878"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1878" and ∠1904".
Pink Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2059 after 26 days on 27 May 2059 at 08:04.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 5 May 2059 at 01:29
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 11 May 2059 at 19:15
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 19 May 2059 at 10:22
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 27 May 2059 at 08:04
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 733 / 1686
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 733 of Meeus index or 1686 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.41 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 47 minutes. It is 55 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 2 hours and 58 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 12 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠30°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠30°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠53.2°.
Moon before apogee
7 days after point of apogee on 22 April 2059 at 12:03 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 8 May 2059 at 06:41 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 381 729 km
The Moon is 381 729 km (237 195 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 831 km (227 938 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 29 April 2059 at 07:01 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 12 May 2059 at 04:37 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
15 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
12 days since the previous standstill on 17 April 2059 at 23:41 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.607°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-26.654° at the point of next southern standstill on 2 May 2059 at 11:32 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 11 May 2059 at 19:15 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.
