Waning
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 79% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 79% and getting smaller. The 19 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 18 March 2022 at 07:17.
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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1957"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1957" and ∠1925".
Worm Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2022 after 25 days on 16 April 2022 at 18:55.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 25 March 2022 at 05:37
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 1 April 2022 at 06:24
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 9 April 2022 at 06:47
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 16 April 2022 at 18:55
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 274 / 1227
The Moon is 19 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 274 of Meeus index or 1227 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.53 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 50 minutes. It is 1 hour and 14 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 6 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 57 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠56.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠56.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠89.8°.
Moon before apogee
11 days after point of apogee on 10 March 2022 at 23:05 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 23 March 2022 at 23:28 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 366 264 km
The Moon is 366 264 km (227 586 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 764 km (229 761 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♏ Scorpio at 08:12 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 13 days later on 4 April 2022 at 13:05 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
10 days since the previous standstill on 12 March 2022 at 00:14 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.674°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.787° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 March 2022 at 11:58 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 9 days
In 9 days on 1 April 2022 at 06:24 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.
