Waning
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 73% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 73% and getting smaller. The 20 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 19 March 2049 at 12:23.
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 in ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1948"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1948" and ∠1924".
Worm Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2049 after 24 days on 18 April 2049 at 01:04.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 26 March 2049 at 15:10
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 2 April 2049 at 11:39
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 10 April 2049 at 07:27
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 18 April 2049 at 01:04
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 608 / 1561
The Moon is 20 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 608 of Meeus index or 1561 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.48 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 28 minutes. It is 1 hour and 4 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 16 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 53 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠39.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠39.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠67°.
Moon before apogee
11 days after point of apogee on 13 March 2049 at 07:24 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 28 March 2049 at 13:03 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 367 888 km
The Moon is 367 888 km (228 595 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 231 km (229 430 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 20:47 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 6 April 2049 at 22:31 in ♊ Gemini.
New draconic month
At 20:47 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before southern standstill
13 days since the previous standstill on 11 March 2049 at 05:37 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.452°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-22.314° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 March 2049 at 08:26 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 2 April 2049 at 11:39 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.
