Waning
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 87% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 87% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 1 April 2075 at 08:45.
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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1959"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1959" and ∠1918".
Pink Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2075 after 26 days on 30 April 2075 at 18:37.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 8 April 2075 at 03:03
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 15 April 2075 at 08:55
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 23 April 2075 at 11:53
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 30 April 2075 at 18:37
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 930 / 1883
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 930 of Meeus index or 1883 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.56 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 31 minutes. It is 56 minutes shorter 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 46 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 16 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠76.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠76.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠113.2°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 22:38. It is 11 days after previous apogee on 23 March 2075 at 23:11 in ♊ Gemini. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 16 days, until point of next apogee on 20 April 2075 at 18:02 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 367 126 km
This perigee Moon is 367 126 km (228 122 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 618 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 3 230 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
9 days after ascending node on 26 March 2075 at 01:58 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 8 April 2075 at 04:27 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
9 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
10 days since the previous standstill on 25 March 2075 at 08:07 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.138°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-22.269° at the point of next southern standstill on 7 April 2075 at 15:33 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 15 April 2075 at 08:55 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.
