Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 71% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 71% and getting smaller. The 20 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 23 April 2062 at 16:57.
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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1905".
Pink Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2062 after 23 days on 23 May 2062 at 07:03.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 1 May 2062 at 18:33
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 9 May 2062 at 03:22
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 15 May 2062 at 18:17
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 23 May 2062 at 07:03
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 770 / 1723
The Moon is 20 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 770 of Meeus index or 1723 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.42 days
Length of current 770 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 6 minutes. It is 2 hours and 17 minutes longer than next lunation 771 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 38 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 31 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠301.6°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠301.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠325.7°. 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 in apogee
Moon is reaching point of apogee on this date at 08:55, this is 15 days after last perigee on 13 April 2062 at 17:32 in ♊ Gemini. Lunar orbit is starting to get closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth for 11 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next perigee on 11 May 2062 at 06:10 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 404 747 km
This apogee Moon is 404 747 km (251 498 mi) away from Earth. It is 661 km farther than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 962 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
8 days after its descending node on 21 April 2062 at 04:56 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 6 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 5 May 2062 at 16:29 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
21 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day after previous South standstill on 28 April 2062 at 07:22 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.595°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.528° in the next northern standstill on 11 May 2062 at 22:52 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 9 days
After 9 days on 9 May 2062 at 03:22 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.