Waning
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 87% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 87% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 10 April 2066 at 10:03.
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 ∠6° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1969"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1969" and ∠1913".
Pink Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2066 after 26 days on 9 May 2066 at 18:58.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 17 April 2066 at 02:23
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 24 April 2066 at 12:29
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 2 May 2066 at 16:57
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 9 May 2066 at 18:58
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 819 / 1772
The Moon is 18 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 819 of Meeus index or 1772 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 16 minutes. It is 53 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 32 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 31 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠96.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠96.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠132.1°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 12 April 2066 at 22:32 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 15 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 28 April 2066 at 19:52 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 363 981 km
The Moon is 363 981 km (226 167 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 15 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 408 km (251 909 mi).
Moon before ascending node
10 days after descending node on 2 April 2066 at 22:54 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 16 April 2066 at 00:07 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
24 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
12 days since the previous standstill on 31 March 2066 at 23:06 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.009°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-24.901° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 April 2066 at 10:46 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 24 April 2066 at 12:29 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.
