Waning Gibbous Moon
Waning Gibbous MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waning Gibbous in Sagittarius

Waning Gibbous on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 78% and getting smaller. Lunar cycle is 19 days old.

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.

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 10 April 2036 at 20:22.

Pink Moon before 4 days

Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2036 after 24 days on 10 May 2036 at 08:09.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1790"

Lunar disc appears visually 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1790" and ∠1912".

Lunation 448 / 1401

The Moon is 19 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 448 of Meeus index or 1401 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.53 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 36 minutes and it is 2 hours and 52 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 8 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 1 minute longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠258.5°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠258.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠292.8°.

Moon before apogee

9 days since point of perigee on 6 April 2036 at 09:36 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 18 April 2036 at 17:40 in ♑ Capricorn.

Distance to Moon 400 421 km

The Moon is 400 421 km (248 810 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 135 km (251 118 mi).

Moon before descending node

8 days after ascending node on 6 April 2036 at 19:59 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 20 April 2036 at 16:14 in ♒ Aquarius.

Moon before southern standstill

11 days since the last northern standstill on 3 April 2036 at 13:10 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.439° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-19.540° at the point of next southern standstill on 16 April 2036 at 20:29 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

8 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 10 days

In 10 days on 26 April 2036 at 09:33 in ♉ Taurus 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov