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 75% 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 ♏ Scorpio

Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.

4 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 11 March 2066 at 22:48.

Worm Moon before 4 days

Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2066 after 24 days on 10 April 2066 at 10:03.

Neap tide

There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1965"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1965" and ∠1928".

Lunation 818 / 1771

The Moon is 19 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 818 of Meeus index or 1771 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.56 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 23 minutes and it is 53 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 39 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 24 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠61.6°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠61.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠96.6°.

Moon at perigee

Moon is at perigee at 19:50 about 12 days since last apogee on 4 March 2066 at 06:48 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 1 April 2066 at 02:53 in ♊ Gemini.

Distance to Moon 369 243 km

This perigee Moon is 369 243 km (229 437 mi) away from Earth. It is 6 735 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 1 113 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.

Moon before ascending node

9 days after descending node on 6 March 2066 at 20:17 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 19 March 2066 at 23:41 in ♑ Capricorn.

Moon before southern standstill

11 days since the last northern standstill on 4 March 2066 at 15:15 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.268° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-25.141° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 March 2066 at 04:52 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

23 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 9 days

In 9 days on 25 March 2066 at 22:13 in ♓ Pisces 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