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

Waning Gibbous in Libra

Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 98% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 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 ♎ Libra

Moon is passing about ∠10° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 13 March 2055 at 08:57.

Worm Moon before 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2055 after 28 days on 11 April 2055 at 17:58.

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 ∠1967"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1967" and ∠1930".

Lunation 682 / 1635

The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 682 of Meeus index or 1635 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.77 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 22 minutes and it is 2 hours and 6 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 5 hours and 38 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 25 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠170.8°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠170.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠194.9°.

Moon after perigee

1 day since point of perigee on 13 March 2055 at 06:25 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 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 26 March 2055 at 15:17 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 364 429 km

The Moon is 364 429 km (226 446 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 485 km (252 578 mi).

Moon after ascending node

3 days after ascending node on 11 March 2055 at 03:26 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 24 March 2055 at 03:28 in ♒ Aquarius.

Moon after northern standstill

6 days since the last northern standstill on 8 March 2055 at 09:08 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.771° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.832° at the point of next southern standstill on 20 March 2055 at 22:19 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

3 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 13 days

In 13 days on 28 March 2055 at 07:01 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