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 91% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 17 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 is entering ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 12 April 2044 at 09:39.

Pink Moon before 3 days

Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2044 after 26 days on 12 May 2044 at 00:16.

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 ∠1777"

Lunar disc appears visually 7.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1777" and ∠1912".

Lunation 547 / 1500

The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 547 of Meeus index or 1500 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.43 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 16 minutes and it is 2 hours and 19 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 2 hours and 28 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 41 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠304.8°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠304.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠328.1°.

Moon before apogee

13 days since point of perigee on 2 April 2044 at 02:16 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 17 April 2044 at 20:46 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 403 373 km

The Moon is 403 373 km (250 644 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 858 km (251 567 mi).

Moon after descending node

5 days after descending node on 9 April 2044 at 20:15 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 24 April 2044 at 08:06 in ♓ Pisces.

Moon before southern standstill

11 days since the last northern standstill on 3 April 2044 at 22:19 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.596° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.526° at the point of next southern standstill on 17 April 2044 at 18:10 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

18 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 12 days

In 12 days on 27 April 2044 at 19:42 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