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

Waning Gibbous in Scorpio

Waning Gibbous on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 96% and getting smaller. Lunar cycle is 16 days old.

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.

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♏ Scorpio

Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 16 April 2041 at 12:00.

Pink Moon before 2 days

Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2041 after 27 days on 16 May 2041 at 00:52.

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 ∠1867"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1867" and ∠1910".

Lunation 510 / 1463

The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 510 of Meeus index or 1463 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.43 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 17 minutes and it is 53 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 27 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 42 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠32.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠32.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠56.2°.

Moon after apogee

7 days since point of apogee on 10 April 2041 at 23:41 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 26 April 2041 at 16:51 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 383 910 km

The Moon is 383 910 km (238 551 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 410 km (228 298 mi).

Moon after descending node

1 day after descending node on 17 April 2041 at 22:27 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 30 April 2041 at 20:05 in ♉ Taurus.

Moon before southern standstill

11 days since the last northern standstill on 7 April 2041 at 10:33 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.319° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.368° at the point of next southern standstill on 21 April 2041 at 19:43 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

15 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 11 days

In 11 days on 30 April 2041 at 11:46 in ♉ Taurus 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