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 99% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 15 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 ∠0° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 6 May 2069 at 09:11.

Flower Moon before 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2069 after 28 days on 5 June 2069 at 00:19.

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 ∠1785"

Lunar disc appears visually 6.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1785" and ∠1901".

Lunation 857 / 1810

The Moon is 15 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 857 of Meeus index or 1810 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.34 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 7 minutes and it is 1 minute shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2069. 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 shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 37 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 32 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠4.9°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠4.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠21°.

Moon after apogee

3 days since point of apogee on 4 May 2069 at 05:38 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 May 2069 at 12:00 in ♉ Taurus.

Distance to Moon 401 522 km

The Moon is 401 522 km (249 494 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 730 km (223 526 mi).

Moon after ascending node

1 day after ascending node on 6 May 2069 at 03:49 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 19 May 2069 at 15:35 in ♉ Taurus.

Moon before southern standstill

12 days since the last northern standstill on 24 April 2069 at 15:22 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.914° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-19.911° at the point of next southern standstill on 9 May 2069 at 03:40 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 13 days

In 13 days on 20 May 2069 at 18:06 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