Waning
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 85% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 85% 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 30 May 2094 at 00:58.
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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1961"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1961" and ∠1892".
Flower Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2094 after 25 days on 28 June 2094 at 09:58.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 5 June 2094 at 19:41
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 13 June 2094 at 00:03
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 21 June 2094 at 02:19
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 28 June 2094 at 09:58
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 1167 / 2120
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 1167 of Meeus index or 2120 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.5 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 54 minutes. It is 1 hour and 39 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 50 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 19 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠74.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠74.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠109.9°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 22:20. It is 12 days after previous apogee on 21 May 2094 at 19:13 in ♌ Leo. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 16 days, until point of next apogee on 18 June 2094 at 13:22 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 367 459 km
This perigee Moon is 367 459 km (228 328 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 951 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 2 897 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 1 June 2094 at 01:35 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 14 June 2094 at 04:44 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
15 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, 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 1 June 2094 at 08:45 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.296°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.310° at the point of next northern standstill on 14 June 2094 at 13:39 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 13 June 2094 at 00:03 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.
