Waning Gibbous Moon
Waning Gibbous MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waning Gibbous in Sagittarius

Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 63% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 20 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

The 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 phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is passing about ∠21° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

5 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 21 March 2038 at 02:09.

Worm Moon before 5 days

Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2038 after 23 days on 19 April 2038 at 10:36.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1921"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1921" and ∠1923".

Lunation 472 / 1425

The Moon is 20 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 472 of Meeus index or 1425 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.73 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 28 minutes and it is 51 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2038. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).

Lunation length longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 44 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 19 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠149.9°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠149.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠175.3°.

Moon after perigee

4 days since point of perigee on 21 March 2038 at 17:16 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 5 April 2038 at 05:32 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 373 121 km

The Moon is 373 121 km (231 847 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 665 km (252 690 mi).

Moon before descending node

10 days after ascending node on 15 March 2038 at 23:29 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 28 March 2038 at 09:42 in ♑ Capricorn.

Moon before southern standstill

10 days since the last northern standstill on 15 March 2038 at 13:46 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.441° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-22.546° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 March 2038 at 02:02 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 9 days

In 9 days on 4 April 2038 at 16:43 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov