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Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 61% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 61% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 11 April 2093 at 16:35.
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 ∠15° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1911".
Pink Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2093 after 23 days on 11 May 2093 at 02:17.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 18 April 2093 at 11:20
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 25 April 2093 at 16:12
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 3 May 2093 at 18:37
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 11 May 2093 at 02:17
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 1153 / 2106
The Moon is 21 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1153 of Meeus index or 2106 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.54 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 54 minutes. It is 1 hour and 1 minute shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 10 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 53 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠73.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠73.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠109.2°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 15 April 2093 at 13:30 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 1 May 2093 at 06:12 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 363 377 km
The Moon is 363 377 km (225 792 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 13 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 751 km (251 501 mi).
Moon before descending node
12 days after ascending node on 5 April 2093 at 10:03 in ♌ Leo. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 18 April 2093 at 13:39 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 04:44 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-21.301°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠21.429° at the point of next standstill in ♋ Cancer on 1 May 2093 at 00:13.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 25 April 2093 at 16:12 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.
