Waning
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 74% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 74% and getting smaller. The 19 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 2 May 2083 at 02:29.
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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠17° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1934"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1934" and ∠1902".
Flower Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2083 after 24 days on 31 May 2083 at 09:42.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 8 May 2083 at 18:30
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 16 May 2083 at 18:14
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 24 May 2083 at 18:11
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 31 May 2083 at 09:42
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 1030 / 1983
The Moon is 19 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1030 of Meeus index or 1983 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.67 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 4 minutes. It is 40 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 20 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 43 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠156.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠156.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠180.3°.
Moon after perigee
3 days after point of perigee on 2 May 2083 at 12:57 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 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 16 May 2083 at 17:26 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 370 622 km
The Moon is 370 622 km (230 294 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 663 km (252 689 mi).
Moon before ascending node
10 days after descending node on 25 April 2083 at 22:02 in ♌ Leo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 8 May 2083 at 08:03 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
25 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 4 May 2083 at 19:46 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.010°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.923° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 May 2083 at 00:24 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 16 May 2083 at 18:14 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.
