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 68% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 20 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 in ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

6 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 6 days on 17 March 2060 at 03:41.

Worm Moon before 6 days

Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2060 after 23 days on 15 April 2060 at 21:21.

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 ∠1816"

Lunar disc appears visually 5.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1816" and ∠1924".

Lunation 744 / 1697

The Moon is 20 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 744 of Meeus index or 1697 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.39 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 26 minutes and it is 53 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 3 hours and 18 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 51 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠342.5°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠342.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠358.2°.

Moon after apogee

4 days since point of apogee on 18 March 2060 at 18:59 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 1 April 2060 at 04:11 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 394 679 km

The Moon is 394 679 km (245 242 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 029 km (221 848 mi).

Moon after descending node

2 days after descending node on 20 March 2060 at 15:22 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 2 April 2060 at 19:04 in ♉ Taurus.

Moon before southern standstill

12 days since the last northern standstill on 10 March 2060 at 14:36 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.537° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-27.644° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 March 2060 at 08:59 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

17 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 8 days

In 8 days on 1 April 2060 at 01:37 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.

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