Waning
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 88% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 88% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 27 March 2013 at 09:27.
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 ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠21° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1957"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1957" and ∠1921".
Worm Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2013 after 26 days on 25 April 2013 at 19:57.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 3 April 2013 at 04:37
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 10 April 2013 at 09:35
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 18 April 2013 at 12:31
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 25 April 2013 at 19:57
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 163 / 1116
The Moon is 18 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 163 of Meeus index or 1116 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.57 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 44 minutes. It is 1 hour and 9 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 3 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠73.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠73.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠110.3°.
Moon before apogee
11 days after point of apogee on 19 March 2013 at 03:13 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 31 March 2013 at 03:55 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 366 215 km
The Moon is 366 215 km (227 555 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 494 km (228 350 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♏ Scorpio at 05:55 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 12 April 2013 at 12:12 in ♉ Taurus.
New draconic month
At 05:55 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 18 March 2013 at 21:50 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.335°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.250° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 April 2013 at 12:03 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 10 April 2013 at 09:35 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.
