Waning
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 89% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 89% and getting smaller. The 18 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 1 April 2064 at 17:40.
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 ∠24° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1929"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1929" and ∠1918".
Pink Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2064 after 26 days on 1 May 2064 at 02:08.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 8 April 2064 at 14:25
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 16 April 2064 at 19:02
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 24 April 2064 at 11:17
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 1 May 2064 at 02:08
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 794 / 1747
The Moon is 18 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 794 of Meeus index or 1747 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.72 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 17 minutes. It is 2 hours and 24 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 33 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 30 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠181.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠181.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠206.1°.
Moon after perigee
3 days after point of perigee on 1 April 2064 at 05:29 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 14 April 2064 at 02:09 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 371 526 km
The Moon is 371 526 km (230 856 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 249 km (252 431 mi).
Moon after descending node
6 days after descending node on 29 March 2064 at 11:52 in ♌ Leo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 11 April 2064 at 08:46 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
20 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, 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 25 March 2064 at 03:21 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.727°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.645° at the point of next southern standstill on 6 April 2064 at 15:48 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 16 April 2064 at 19:02 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.
