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
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 52 minutes. It is 46 minutes shorter 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 8 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 55 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠100.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠100.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠135.6°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 10:10. It is 11 days after previous apogee on 20 March 2048 at 14:41 in ♊ Gemini. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 15 days, until 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 further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
9 days after descending node on 22 March 2048 at 14:49 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 4 April 2048 at 14:57 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
23 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
10 days since the previous standstill on 21 March 2048 at 12:10 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.093°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.977° at the point of next southern standstill on 3 April 2048 at 18:56 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 13 April 2048 at 05:20 in ♈ Aries 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.
