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

Waning Gibbous in Scorpio

Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 93% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 17 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

The 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 phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon is entering ♏ Scorpio

Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 22 March 2046 at 09:27.

Worm Moon before 2 days

Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2046 after 27 days on 20 April 2046 at 18:21.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1939"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1939" and ∠1924".

Lunation 571 / 1524

The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 571 of Meeus index or 1524 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.73 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 36 minutes and it is 2 hours and 32 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 52 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 11 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠184.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠184.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠209.1°.

Moon after perigee

2 days since point of perigee on 21 March 2046 at 18:59 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 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 3 April 2046 at 12:45 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 369 717 km

The Moon is 369 717 km (229 731 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 176 km (252 386 mi).

Moon after descending node

5 days after descending node on 19 March 2046 at 03:00 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 1 April 2046 at 00:32 in ♒ Aquarius.

Moon before southern standstill

8 days since the last northern standstill on 15 March 2046 at 12:23 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.160° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.076° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 March 2046 at 00:39 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

19 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 12 days

In 12 days on 6 April 2046 at 11:52 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.

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