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 84% and getting smaller. Lunar cycle is 18 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 ∠9° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 9 April 2039 at 02:53.

Pink Moon before 3 days

Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2039 after 25 days on 8 May 2039 at 11:20.

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 ∠1972"

Lunar disc appears visually 3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1914".

Lunation 485 / 1438

The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 485 of Meeus index or 1438 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.65 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 35 minutes and it is 28 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).

Lunation length longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 51 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 12 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠120.7°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠120.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠151.8°.

Moon after perigee

1 day since point of perigee on 10 April 2039 at 17:31 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 26 April 2039 at 06:54 in ♊ Gemini.

Distance to Moon 363 427 km

The Moon is 363 427 km (225 823 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 13 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 022 km (252 290 mi).

Moon before descending node

12 days after ascending node on 31 March 2039 at 11:40 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 13 April 2039 at 11:46 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Moon before southern standstill

10 days since the last northern standstill on 1 April 2039 at 20:16 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.377° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.485° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 April 2039 at 17:09 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 10 days

In 10 days on 23 April 2039 at 09:35 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