Waning
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 96% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 96% 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 11 April 2093 at 16:35.
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 ∠18° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1934"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1934" and ∠1913".
Pink Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2093 after 27 days on 11 May 2093 at 02:17.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 18 April 2093 at 11:20
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 25 April 2093 at 16:12
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 3 May 2093 at 18:37
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 11 May 2093 at 02:17
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 1153 / 2106
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 1153 of Meeus index or 2106 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.54 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 54 minutes. It is 1 hour and 1 minute 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 10 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 53 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠73.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠73.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠109.2°.
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of apogee on 3 April 2093 at 11:21 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 April 2093 at 13:30 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 370 599 km
The Moon is 370 599 km (230 280 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 662 km (228 455 mi).
Moon before descending node
8 days after ascending node on 5 April 2093 at 10:03 in ♌ Leo. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 18 April 2093 at 13:39 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
8 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 3 April 2093 at 16:04 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.174°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.301° at the point of next southern standstill on 17 April 2093 at 04:44 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 25 April 2093 at 16:12 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.
