Waning
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 91% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 91% and getting smaller. The 17 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 14 March 2025 at 06:55.
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 is entering ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1928".
Worm Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2025 after 26 days on 13 April 2025 at 00:22.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 22 March 2025 at 11:30
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 29 March 2025 at 10:58
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 5 April 2025 at 02:15
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 13 April 2025 at 00:22
Neap tide
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunation 311 / 1264
The Moon is 17 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 311 of Meeus index or 1264 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 13 minutes. It is 1 hour and 40 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 31 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 38 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠329.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠329.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠346.9°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 16:37. It is 15 days after previous perigee on 1 March 2025 at 21:18 in ♓ Pisces. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 12 days, until point of next perigee on 30 March 2025 at 05:26 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 405 754 km
This apogee Moon is 405 754 km (252 124 mi) away from Earth. It is 346 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 955 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
2 days after descending node on 14 March 2025 at 13:45 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 28 March 2025 at 16:29 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
16 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, 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 7 March 2025 at 15:56 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.710°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.719° at the point of next southern standstill on 22 March 2025 at 06:47 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 29 March 2025 at 10:58 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.
