Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
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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Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 5 April 2099 at 08:37.
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 is leaving the last ∠2° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Lunar disc appears visually 3.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1844" and ∠1915".
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2099 after 24 days on 4 May 2099 at 17:58.
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.
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.
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°).
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.
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°.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.