Waning
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 87% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 87% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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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 19 April 2095 at 18:14.
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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1841"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1841" and ∠1908".
Pink Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2095 after 25 days on 19 May 2095 at 09:21.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 27 April 2095 at 10:45
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 4 May 2095 at 01:06
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 11 May 2095 at 06:14
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 19 May 2095 at 09:21
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 1178 / 2131
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 1178 of Meeus index or 2131 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.35 days
Length of current 1178 lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 30 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2095. It is 22 minutes shorter than next lunation 1179 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 14 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 55 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠9.2°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠9.2°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠26°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon after apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 16 April 2095 at 22:45 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 8 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 2 May 2095 at 11:37 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 389 366 km
Moon is 389 366 km (241 941 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 8 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 360 703 km (224 130 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 19:35 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from North to South. Moon will follow the southern part of its orbit for the next 13 days to meet ascending node on 6 May 2095 at 12:15 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
14 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
12 days after previous North standstill on 10 April 2095 at 17:25 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠24.694°. Next day the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-24.812° in the next southern standstill on 25 April 2095 at 11:03 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 10 days
After 10 days on 4 May 2095 at 01:06 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.