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
Length of current 64 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 22 minutes. It is 51 minutes shorter than next lunation 65 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 22 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 47 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠36.2°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠36.2°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠62.3°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon after apogee
7 days after point of apogee on 19 March 2005 at 22:54 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 4 April 2005 at 11:10 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 383 488 km
Moon is 383 488 km (238 288 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 7 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 368 492 km (228 970 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♎ Libra at 05:15 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from North to South. Moon will follow the southern part of its orbit for the next 12 days to meet ascending node on 9 April 2005 at 02:59 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
14 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
9 days after previous North standstill on 18 March 2005 at 08:25 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.325°. Next 4 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.372° in the next southern standstill on 1 April 2005 at 10:19 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 12 days
After 12 days on 8 April 2005 at 20:32 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.