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 ♏ Scorpio.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 10 March 2058 at 08:52.
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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1929"
Lunar disc appears visually 0% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1929" and ∠1929".
Worm Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2058 after 24 days on 8 April 2058 at 22:55.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 17 March 2058 at 15:56
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 24 March 2058 at 09:50
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 1 April 2058 at 01:03
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 8 April 2058 at 22:55
Neap tide
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunation 719 / 1672
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 719 of Meeus index or 1672 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
Length of current 719 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 53 minutes. It is 46 minutes shorter than next lunation 720 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 51 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 18 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠28.2°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠28.2°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠50.9°. 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 before perigee
10 days after point of apogee on 5 March 2058 at 03:58 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 21 March 2058 at 01:53 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 371 500 km
Moon is 371 500 km (230 839 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 5 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 366 648 km (227 825 mi).
Moon before descending node
12 days after its ascending node on 2 March 2058 at 22:25 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 17 March 2058 at 01:12 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
12 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
10 days after previous North standstill on 4 March 2058 at 15:47 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠24.758°. Next 3 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-24.900° in the next southern standstill on 18 March 2058 at 14:46 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 8 days
After 8 days on 24 March 2058 at 09:50 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.