Waning
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 84% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 84% 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 25 March 2081 at 00:29.
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 ∠25° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1879"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1879" and ∠1922".
Worm Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2081 after 25 days on 23 April 2081 at 10:20.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 1 April 2081 at 03:35
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 9 April 2081 at 08:15
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 16 April 2081 at 17:31
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 23 April 2081 at 10:20
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 1004 / 1957
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 1004 of Meeus index or 1957 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.71 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 58 minutes. It is 3 hours and 4 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 14 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 49 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠202.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠202.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠231.2°.
Moon after perigee
4 days after point of perigee on 23 March 2081 at 16:38 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 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 4 April 2081 at 19:49 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 381 432 km
The Moon is 381 432 km (237 011 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 494 km (251 962 mi).
Moon after descending node
4 days after descending node on 24 March 2081 at 07:17 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 7 April 2081 at 05:10 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
17 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, 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 18 March 2081 at 10:34 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.673°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.653° at the point of next southern standstill on 31 March 2081 at 02:35 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 9 April 2081 at 08:15 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.
