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

Waning Gibbous in Capricorn

Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 64% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 20 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 is entering ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

5 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 4 April 2091 at 01:31.

Pink Moon before 5 days

Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2091 after 23 days on 3 May 2091 at 09:46.

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 ∠1895"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1895" and ∠1915".

Lunation 1128 / 2081

The Moon is 20 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1128 of Meeus index or 2081 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.73 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 34 minutes and it is 1 hour and 47 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 50 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 13 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠165.8°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠165.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠189.5°.

Moon after perigee

5 days since point of perigee on 4 April 2091 at 03:26 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 17 April 2091 at 19:25 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 378 239 km

The Moon is 378 239 km (235 027 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 548 km (252 617 mi).

Moon before descending node

7 days after ascending node on 1 April 2091 at 21:03 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 14 April 2091 at 19:58 in ♓ Pisces.

Moon at southern standstill

At 13:20 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-18.596°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠18.701° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 24 April 2091 at 07:29.

Draconic month

7 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 9 days

In 9 days on 18 April 2091 at 21:20 in ♈ Aries 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