Waning Gibbous Moon
Waning Gibbous MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waning Gibbous in Sagittarius

Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 88% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 18 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

The 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 phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.

3 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 4 May 2080 at 00:10.

Flower Moon before 3 days

Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2080 after 26 days on 2 June 2080 at 13:45.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1778"

Lunar disc appears visually 6.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1778" and ∠1901".

Lunation 993 / 1946

The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 993 of Meeus index or 1946 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.41 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 57 minutes and it is 2 hours and 13 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit 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 2 hours and 47 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 22 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠298.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠298.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠323.1°.

Moon before apogee

13 days since point of perigee on 24 April 2080 at 09:33 in ♋ Cancer 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 9 May 2080 at 21:01 in ♑ Capricorn.

Distance to Moon 403 237 km

The Moon is 403 237 km (250 560 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 644 km (251 434 mi).

Moon after descending node

5 days after descending node on 1 May 2080 at 13:38 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 16 May 2080 at 00:50 in ♈ Aries.

Moon at southern standstill

At 20:36 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.498°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.443° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 21 May 2080 at 16:35.

Draconic month

18 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 11 days

In 11 days on 19 May 2080 at 10:56 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov