Waning
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 84% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 84% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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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 30 March 2029 at 02:26.
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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1942"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1942" and ∠1919".
Worm Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2029 after 25 days on 28 April 2029 at 10:37.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 5 April 2029 at 19:51
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 13 April 2029 at 21:40
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 21 April 2029 at 19:50
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 28 April 2029 at 10:37
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 361 / 1314
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 361 of Meeus index or 1314 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.72 days
Length of current 361 lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 21 minutes. It is 1 hour and 19 minutes longer than next lunation 362 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 37 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 26 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠164.5°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠164.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠188.3°. 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 after perigee
3 days after point of perigee on 30 March 2029 at 05:40 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 12 April 2029 at 23:04 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 369 120 km
Moon is 369 120 km (229 361 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 10 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 670 km (252 693 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after its descending node on 23 March 2029 at 20:28 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 2 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 5 April 2029 at 05:50 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
24 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days after previous North standstill on 22 March 2029 at 05:25 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠24.763°. Next day the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-24.661° in the next southern standstill on 3 April 2029 at 19:08 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 11 days
After 11 days on 13 April 2029 at 21:40 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.