Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 69% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 69% and getting smaller. The 20 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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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 5 April 2099 at 08:37.
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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1844"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1844" and ∠1915".
Pink Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2099 after 24 days on 4 May 2099 at 17:58.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 12 April 2099 at 10:47
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 20 April 2099 at 15:30
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 28 April 2099 at 01:36
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 4 May 2099 at 17:58
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 1227 / 2180
The Moon is 20 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1227 of Meeus index or 2180 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.7 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 43 minutes. It is 2 hours and 56 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the 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 3 hours and 59 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 4 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠199.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠199.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠227.5°.
Moon before perigee
6 days after point of perigee on 4 April 2099 at 03:23 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 16 April 2099 at 08:34 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 388 646 km
The Moon is 388 646 km (241 493 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 586 km (252 019 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after descending node on 4 April 2099 at 16:08 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 18 April 2099 at 13:19 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
19 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 17:12 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.656°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.599° at the point of next standstill in ♋ Cancer on 25 April 2099 at 08:16.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 20 April 2099 at 15:30 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.
