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
Length of current 311 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 13 minutes. It is 1 hour and 40 minutes longer than next lunation 312 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 31 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 38 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠329.3°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠329.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠346.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon in apogee
Moon is reaching point of apogee on this date at 16:37, this is 15 days after last perigee on 1 March 2025 at 21:18 in ♓ Pisces. Lunar orbit is starting to get closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth for 12 days ahead, until it will get to the 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 farther 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 its descending node on 14 March 2025 at 13:45 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 11 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 28 March 2025 at 16:29 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
16 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
9 days after previous North standstill on 7 March 2025 at 15:56 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.710°. Next 4 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.719° in the next southern standstill on 22 March 2025 at 06:47 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 11 days
After 11 days on 29 March 2025 at 10:58 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.