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 82% and getting smaller. Lunar cycle is 19 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 ∠12° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 6 March 2042 at 20:10.

Worm Moon before 4 days

Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2042 after 25 days on 5 April 2042 at 14:16.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1792"

Lunar disc appears visually 7.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1792" and ∠1931".

Lunation 521 / 1474

The Moon is 19 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 521 of Meeus index or 1474 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.41 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 44 minutes and it is 48 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit 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 shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 9 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠344.2°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠344.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠359.8°.

Moon after apogee

3 days since point of apogee on 8 March 2042 at 05:04 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 March 2042 at 17:40 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 399 964 km

The Moon is 399 964 km (248 526 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 943 km (221 794 mi).

Moon after descending node

1 day after descending node on 10 March 2042 at 07:08 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 23 March 2042 at 10:11 in ♈ Aries.

Moon before southern standstill

10 days since the last northern standstill on 28 February 2042 at 23:35 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.031° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.137° at the point of next southern standstill on 15 March 2042 at 17:54 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

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

Syzygy in 10 days

In 10 days on 21 March 2042 at 17:23 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.

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