Waning
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 97% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 97% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 23 March 2035 at 22:42.
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 ♎ Libra
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1810"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1810" and ∠1924".
Worm Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2035 after 28 days on 22 April 2035 at 13:21.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 31 March 2035 at 23:06
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 8 April 2035 at 10:58
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 15 April 2035 at 02:55
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 22 April 2035 at 13:21
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 435 / 1388
The Moon is 16 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 435 of Meeus index or 1388 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.49 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 48 minutes. It is 2 hours and 42 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 56 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 13 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠291.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠291.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠318.8°.
Moon before perigee
10 days after point of perigee on 15 March 2035 at 01:35 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 30 March 2035 at 05:37 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 395 966 km
The Moon is 395 966 km (246 042 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 557 km (251 380 mi).
Moon after ascending node
2 days after ascending node on 22 March 2035 at 12:53 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 6 April 2035 at 00:06 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
2 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
8 days since the previous standstill on 17 March 2035 at 10:06 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.394°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.441° at the point of next southern standstill on 31 March 2035 at 09:27 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 13 days
In 13 days on 8 April 2035 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.
