Waning
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 78% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 78% and getting smaller. The 19 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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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 31 May 2083 at 09:42.
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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠10° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1903"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1903" and ∠1891".
Flower Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2083 after 25 days on 29 June 2083 at 16:51.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 7 June 2083 at 06:29
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 15 June 2083 at 09:37
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 23 June 2083 at 02:52
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 29 June 2083 at 16:51
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 1031 / 1984
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 1031 of Meeus index or 1984 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 24 minutes. It is 1 hour and 7 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 2 hours and 40 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 23 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠180.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠180.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠203.8°.
Moon after perigee
4 days after point of perigee on 30 May 2083 at 23:07 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 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 12 June 2083 at 22:19 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 376 657 km
The Moon is 376 657 km (234 044 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 337 km (252 486 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♒ Aquarius at 11:34 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 19 June 2083 at 01:15 in ♌ Leo.
New draconic month
At 11:34 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 1 June 2083 at 05:43 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.909°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.886° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 June 2083 at 05:35 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 15 June 2083 at 09:37 in ♊ Gemini 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.
