Waning
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 97% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 97% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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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 6 April 2069 at 16:13.
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 ∠9° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1772"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1772" and ∠1916".
Pink Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2069 after 27 days on 6 May 2069 at 09:11.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 14 April 2069 at 17:21
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 21 April 2069 at 09:58
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 28 April 2069 at 05:56
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 6 May 2069 at 09:11
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 856 / 1809
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 856 of Meeus index or 1809 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.36 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 45 minutes. It is 38 minutes longer 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 3 hours and 59 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 10 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠349.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠349.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠4.9°.
Moon after apogee
1 day after point of apogee on 7 April 2069 at 02:44 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 April 2069 at 02:57 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 404 569 km
The Moon is 404 569 km (251 388 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 266 km (221 995 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♏ Scorpio at 21:44 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 22 April 2069 at 04:46 in ♉ Taurus.
New draconic month
At 21:44 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 28 March 2069 at 06:45 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.006°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.933° at the point of next southern standstill on 11 April 2069 at 22:06 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 21 April 2069 at 09:58 in ♉ Taurus 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.
