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 86% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 18 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 ♏ Scorpio

Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 22 March 2065 at 09:56.

Worm Moon before 3 days

Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2065 after 26 days on 20 April 2065 at 18:36.

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 ∠1971"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1923".

Lunation 806 / 1759

The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 806 of Meeus index or 1759 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.7 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 46 minutes and it is 17 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2065. 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 4 hours and 2 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 1 minute shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠129.8°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠129.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠159.2°.

Moon after perigee

1 day since point of perigee on 23 March 2065 at 16:36 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 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 8 April 2065 at 00:30 in ♉ Taurus.

Distance to Moon 363 589 km

The Moon is 363 589 km (225 924 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 13 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 389 km (252 518 mi).

Moon before ascending node

7 days after descending node on 18 March 2065 at 09:40 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 30 March 2065 at 22:27 in ♑ Capricorn.

Moon before southern standstill

10 days since the last northern standstill on 14 March 2065 at 23:55 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.648° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.548° at the point of next southern standstill on 27 March 2065 at 18:51 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

21 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 11 days

In 11 days on 5 April 2065 at 19:01 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