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

Waning Gibbous in Sagittarius

Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 78% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 19 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 in ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is passing about ∠21° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 10 April 2047 at 10:35.

Pink Moon before 4 days

Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2047 after 25 days on 9 May 2047 at 18:24.

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 ∠1933"

Lunar disc appears visually 1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1933" and ∠1913".

Lunation 584 / 1537

The Moon is 19 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 584 of Meeus index or 1537 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.71 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 56 minutes and it is 1 hour and 8 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 12 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 51 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠161.9°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠161.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠185.7°.

Moon after perigee

3 days since point of perigee on 10 April 2047 at 16:08 in ♎ Libra 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 24 April 2047 at 13:11 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 370 852 km

The Moon is 370 852 km (230 437 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 676 km (252 697 mi).

Moon before ascending node

10 days after descending node on 4 April 2047 at 05:01 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 16 April 2047 at 14:32 in ♑ Capricorn.

Moon at southern standstill

At 10:31 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-25.536°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠25.418° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 28 April 2047 at 23:17.

Draconic month

24 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 10 days

In 10 days on 25 April 2047 at 04:40 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