Waning
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 92% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 92% and getting smaller. The 17 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 30 March 2048 at 02:04.
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 in ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1965"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1965" and ∠1919".
Worm Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2048 after 26 days on 28 April 2048 at 11:13.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 5 April 2048 at 18:10
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 13 April 2048 at 05:20
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 21 April 2048 at 10:02
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 28 April 2048 at 11:13
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 596 / 1549
The Moon is 17 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 596 of Meeus index or 1549 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.62 days
Length of current 596 lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 52 minutes. It is 46 minutes shorter than next lunation 597 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 8 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 55 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠100.4°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠100.4°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠135.6°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon in perigee
Moon is reaching point of perigee on this date at 10:10, this is 11 days after last apogee on 20 March 2048 at 14:41 in ♊ Gemini. Lunar orbit is starting to get wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth for 15 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next apogee on 17 April 2048 at 07:22 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 363 563 km
This perigee Moon is 363 563 km (225 908 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 055 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 6 793 km farther than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
9 days after its descending node on 22 March 2048 at 14:49 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 4 April 2048 at 14:57 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
23 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
10 days after previous North standstill on 21 March 2048 at 12:10 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠24.093°. Next 2 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-23.977° in the next southern standstill on 3 April 2048 at 18:56 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 11 days
After 11 days on 13 April 2048 at 05:20 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.