Waning
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 97% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 97% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 25 March 2005 at 20:58.
Moonrise and moonset
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 in ♎ Libra
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♏ Scorpio later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1869"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1869" and ∠1922".
Worm Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2005 after 27 days on 24 April 2005 at 10:06.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 2 April 2005 at 00:50
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 8 April 2005 at 20:32
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 16 April 2005 at 14:37
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 24 April 2005 at 10:06
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.
Lunation 64 / 1017
The Moon is 16 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 64 of Meeus index or 1017 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.47 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 22 minutes. It is 51 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the 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 1 hour and 22 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 47 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠36.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠36.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠62.3°.
Moon after apogee
7 days after point of apogee on 19 March 2005 at 22:54 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 4 April 2005 at 11:10 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 383 488 km
The Moon is 383 488 km (238 288 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 492 km (228 970 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♎ Libra at 05:15 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 12 days later on 9 April 2005 at 02:59 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 18 March 2005 at 08:25 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.325°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.372° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 April 2005 at 10:19 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 8 April 2005 at 20:32 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.
