Waning Gibbous Moon
Waning Gibbous MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waning Gibbous in Scorpio

Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 89% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 18 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 ♏ Scorpio

Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 23 March 2073 at 17:17.

Worm Moon before 2 days

Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2073 after 26 days on 22 April 2073 at 01:54.

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 ∠1947"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1947" and ∠1923".

Lunation 905 / 1858

The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 905 of Meeus index or 1858 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.75 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 58 minutes and it is 1 hour and 57 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 14 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 49 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠168.4°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠168.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠192.2°.

Moon after perigee

2 days since point of perigee on 23 March 2073 at 16:57 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 6 April 2073 at 05:19 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 368 064 km

The Moon is 368 064 km (228 704 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 521 km (252 600 mi).

Moon after ascending node

4 days after ascending node on 21 March 2073 at 12:15 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 3 April 2073 at 11:42 in ♒ Aquarius.

Moon before southern standstill

8 days since the last northern standstill on 17 March 2073 at 17:57 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.057° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.120° at the point of next southern standstill on 30 March 2073 at 05:47 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

4 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 12 days

In 12 days on 7 April 2073 at 14:14 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