Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 88% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 88% 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 29 April 2067 at 08:40.
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 ∠23° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1948"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1948" and ∠1903".
Pink Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2067 after 26 days on 28 May 2067 at 18:42.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 6 May 2067 at 05:19
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 13 May 2067 at 07:20
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 21 May 2067 at 08:29
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 28 May 2067 at 18:42
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 832 / 1785
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 832 of Meeus index or 1785 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.5 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 57 minutes. It is 1 hour and 23 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 47 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 22 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠63.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠63.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠98.3°.
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of apogee on 21 April 2067 at 15:37 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 4 May 2067 at 04:17 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 367 976 km
The Moon is 367 976 km (228 650 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 880 km (229 211 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 08:57 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 15 May 2067 at 12:44 in ♊ Gemini.
New draconic month
At 08:57 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon at southern standstill
At 04:12 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-23.143°. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠23.108° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 15 May 2067 at 07:53.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 13 May 2067 at 07:20 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.
