Waning
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 95% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 95% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 20 April 2065 at 18:36.
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 ♏ Scorpio
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1969"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1969" and ∠1908".
Pink Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2065 after 27 days on 20 May 2065 at 02:05.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 27 April 2065 at 11:02
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 5 May 2065 at 11:30
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 13 May 2065 at 10:52
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 20 May 2065 at 02:05
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 807 / 1760
The Moon is 16 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 807 of Meeus index or 1760 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.69 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 29 minutes. It is 55 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 45 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 18 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠159.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠159.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠183°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 21 April 2065 at 02:34 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 5 May 2065 at 03:19 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 364 021 km
The Moon is 364 021 km (226 192 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 674 km (252 696 mi).
Moon before ascending node
7 days after descending node on 14 April 2065 at 13:32 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 26 April 2065 at 23:17 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
22 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 11 April 2065 at 06:32 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.411°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-26.324° at the point of next southern standstill on 24 April 2065 at 02:50 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 5 May 2065 at 11:30 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.
