Waning
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 90% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 90% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
Moon phases for next 7 days
Monday Mon
Tuesday Tue
Wednesday Wed
Thursday Thu
Friday Fri
Saturday Sat
Sunday Sun
Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 10 March 2039 at 16:35.
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 ∠1° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1960"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1960" and ∠1930".
Worm Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2039 after 26 days on 9 April 2039 at 02:53.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 17 March 2039 at 10:08
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 24 March 2039 at 17:59
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 1 April 2039 at 21:55
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 9 April 2039 at 02:53
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 484 / 1437
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 484 of Meeus index or 1437 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.61 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 42 minutes. It is 53 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the 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 1 hour and 58 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 5 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠83.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠83.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠120.7°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 18:38. It is 11 days after previous apogee on 1 March 2039 at 22:42 in ♉ Taurus. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 16 days, until point of next apogee on 29 March 2039 at 17:29 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 366 000 km
This perigee Moon is 366 000 km (227 422 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 492 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 4 356 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
9 days after ascending node on 4 March 2039 at 09:49 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 17 March 2039 at 10:05 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
9 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 5 March 2039 at 12:11 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.115°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.232° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 March 2039 at 11:25 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 24 March 2039 at 17:59 in ♓ Pisces 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.
