Waning
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 94% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 94% and getting smaller. The 17 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 3 April 2034 at 19:19.
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 ∠16° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1769"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1917".
Pink Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2034 after 27 days on 3 May 2034 at 12:16.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 11 April 2034 at 22:45
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 18 April 2034 at 19:26
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 25 April 2034 at 11:35
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 3 May 2034 at 12:16
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 423 / 1376
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 423 of Meeus index or 1376 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.38 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 11 minutes. It is 1 hour and 24 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 3 hours and 33 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 36 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠337.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠337.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠353.9°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 03:44. It is 15 days after previous perigee on 21 March 2034 at 18:12 in ♈ Aries. 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 19 April 2034 at 04:07 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 406 054 km
This apogee Moon is 406 054 km (252 310 mi) away from Earth. It is 646 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 655 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
3 days after ascending node on 2 April 2034 at 21:12 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 17 April 2034 at 02:12 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
3 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
10 days since the previous standstill on 26 March 2034 at 12:34 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.139°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.168° at the point of next southern standstill on 10 April 2034 at 02:35 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 18 April 2034 at 19:26 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.
