Waning
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 98% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 98% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 25 March 2062 at 03:35.
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 ♎ Libra
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1841"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1841" and ∠1923".
Worm Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2062 after 28 days on 23 April 2062 at 16:57.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 1 April 2062 at 23:55
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 9 April 2062 at 17:17
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 16 April 2062 at 12:03
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 23 April 2062 at 16:57
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 769 / 1722
The Moon is 16 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 769 of Meeus index or 1722 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.54 days
Length of current 769 lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 4 minutes. It is 2 hours and 58 minutes longer than next lunation 770 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 20 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 6 hours and 43 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠268.5°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠268.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠301.6°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before apogee
6 days after point of perigee on 19 March 2062 at 16:28 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 1 April 2062 at 14:06 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 389 358 km
Moon is 389 358 km (241 936 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 6 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 300 km (251 220 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after its descending node on 24 March 2062 at 21:44 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 12 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 8 April 2062 at 08:18 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
14 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
8 days after previous North standstill on 18 March 2062 at 10:24 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.705°. Next 5 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.700° in the next southern standstill on 31 March 2062 at 23:35 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 14 days
After 14 days on 9 April 2062 at 17:17 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.