Waning
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 96% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 96% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 24 April 2043 at 07:23.
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 ∠0° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1770"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1906".
Pink Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2043 after 27 days on 23 May 2043 at 23:37.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 2 May 2043 at 08:59
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 9 May 2043 at 03:21
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 15 May 2043 at 21:05
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 23 May 2043 at 23:37
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 535 / 1488
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 535 of Meeus index or 1488 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.34 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 15 minutes. It is 1 hour and 1 minute longer 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 29 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 40 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠345.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠345.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠0.5°.
Moon after apogee
1 day after point of apogee on 25 April 2043 at 12:50 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 9 May 2043 at 02:32 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 404 871 km
The Moon is 404 871 km (251 575 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 136 km (221 914 mi).
Moon after descending node
4 days after descending node on 22 April 2043 at 04:12 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 6 May 2043 at 11:10 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
17 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 14 April 2043 at 15:23 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.638°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.582° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 April 2043 at 03:33 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 9 May 2043 at 03:21 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.
