Waning
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 76% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 76% and getting smaller. The 19 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 12 May 2063 at 13:11.
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 ∠25° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1779"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1779" and ∠1897".
Flower Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2063 after 24 days on 11 June 2063 at 00:43.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 20 May 2063 at 09:16
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 28 May 2063 at 01:47
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 3 June 2063 at 20:28
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 11 June 2063 at 00:43
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 783 / 1736
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 783 of Meeus index or 1736 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 55 minutes. It is 2 hours and 16 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 49 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 20 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠270.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠270.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠301.9°.
Moon before perigee
10 days after point of perigee on 6 May 2063 at 19:05 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 19 May 2063 at 21:24 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 402 834 km
The Moon is 402 834 km (250 309 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 086 km (251 087 mi).
Moon before ascending node
10 days after descending node on 7 May 2063 at 10:50 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 21 May 2063 at 05:36 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
23 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 15 May 2063 at 05:16 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.173°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.118° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 May 2063 at 11:44 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 28 May 2063 at 01:47 in ♊ Gemini 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.
