Waning
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 73% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 73% and getting smaller. The 20 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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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 30 May 2064 at 10:36.
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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠17° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1802"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1802" and ∠1891".
Flower Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2064 after 24 days on 28 June 2064 at 20:08.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 6 June 2064 at 23:23
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 14 June 2064 at 22:20
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 21 June 2064 at 23:13
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 28 June 2064 at 20:08
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 796 / 1749
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 796 of Meeus index or 1749 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.52 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 26 minutes. It is 2 hours and 1 minute 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 18 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 51 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠235.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠235.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠269.7°.
Moon before perigee
7 days after point of perigee on 27 May 2064 at 12:05 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 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 8 June 2064 at 09:54 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 397 798 km
The Moon is 397 798 km (247 180 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 403 km (251 284 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♒ Aquarius at 13:10 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 18 June 2064 at 18:43 in ♌ Leo.
New draconic month
At 13:10 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 31 May 2064 at 10:13 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.330°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.317° at the point of next northern standstill on 14 June 2064 at 20:16 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 14 June 2064 at 22:20 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.
