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 95% 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 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 23 March 2092 at 17:15.

Worm Moon before 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2092 after 27 days on 22 April 2092 at 02:29.

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 ∠1962"

Lunar disc appears visually 2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1962" and ∠1923".

Lunation 1140 / 2093

The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1140 of Meeus index or 2093 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.66 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 45 minutes and it is 13 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 3 hours and 1 minute longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 2 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠106.4°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠106.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠140.8°.

Moon at perigee

Moon is at perigee at 19:17 about 11 days since last apogee on 13 March 2092 at 23:06 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 16 days until point of next apogee on 10 April 2092 at 15:02 in ♉ Taurus.

Distance to Moon 362 589 km

This perigee Moon is 362 589 km (225 302 mi) away from Earth. It is 81 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 7 767 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.

Moon after ascending node

4 days after ascending node on 20 March 2092 at 18:51 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 2 April 2092 at 11:01 in ♒ Aquarius.

Moon before southern standstill

8 days since the last northern standstill on 17 March 2092 at 07:54 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.509° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.597° at the point of next southern standstill on 30 March 2092 at 05:01 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

4 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 12 days

In 12 days on 6 April 2092 at 21:41 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