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 90% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 17 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 ∠6° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 16 April 2079 at 05:02.

Pink Moon before 3 days

Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2079 after 26 days on 15 May 2079 at 20:58.

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 ∠1768"

Lunar disc appears visually 7.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1910".

Lunation 980 / 1933

The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 980 of Meeus index or 1933 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.39 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 27 minutes and it is 1 hour and 43 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 shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 17 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 52 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠322.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠322.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠341.2°.

Moon before apogee

15 days since point of perigee on 4 April 2079 at 09:24 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 20 April 2079 at 06:49 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 405 421 km

The Moon is 405 421 km (251 917 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 433 km (251 924 mi).

Moon after descending node

2 days after descending node on 16 April 2079 at 14:26 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 30 April 2079 at 18:47 in ♈ Aries.

Moon before southern standstill

11 days since the last northern standstill on 7 April 2079 at 18:50 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.041° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.062° at the point of next southern standstill on 22 April 2079 at 00:03 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 11 days

In 11 days on 1 May 2079 at 10:57 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