Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 84% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 84% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 11 May 2093 at 02:17.
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 ∠11° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1898".
Flower Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2093 after 25 days on 9 June 2093 at 10:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 17 May 2093 at 17:47
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 25 May 2093 at 06:07
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 2 June 2093 at 10:39
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 9 June 2093 at 10:09
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 1154 / 2107
The Moon is 18 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1154 of Meeus index or 2107 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.58 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 55 minutes. It is 1 hour and 2 minutes 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 1 hour and 11 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 52 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠109.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠109.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠142°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 13 May 2093 at 03:53 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 14 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 28 May 2093 at 21:26 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 363 309 km
The Moon is 363 309 km (225 750 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 14 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 700 km (252 090 mi).
Moon before descending node
11 days after ascending node on 2 May 2093 at 12:02 in ♋ Cancer. 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 15 May 2093 at 15:06 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
11 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 12:06 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-21.516°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠21.600° at the point of next standstill in ♋ Cancer on 28 May 2093 at 08:03.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 25 May 2093 at 06:07 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.
