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 75% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 19 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 ∠1° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.

4 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 13 April 2082 at 01:45.

Pink Moon before 4 days

Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2082 after 24 days on 12 May 2082 at 09:49.

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 ∠1896"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1896" and ∠1911".

Lunation 1017 / 1970

The Moon is 19 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1017 of Meeus index or 1970 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.71 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 57 minutes and it is 2 hours and 12 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 13 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 50 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠179.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠179.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠203.1°.

Moon after perigee

4 days since point of perigee on 12 April 2082 at 15:53 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 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 25 April 2082 at 15:39 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 378 069 km

The Moon is 378 069 km (234 921 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 316 km (252 473 mi).

Moon before ascending node

7 days after descending node on 9 April 2082 at 20:43 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 22 April 2082 at 17:02 in ♒ Aquarius.

Moon at southern standstill

At 07:41 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.081°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠27.970° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 1 May 2082 at 23:20.

Draconic month

21 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 10 days

In 10 days on 28 April 2082 at 02:02 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