Waning
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 94% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 94% and getting smaller. The 17 days old Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 17 March 2098 at 07:43.
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 ♎ Libra
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♏ Scorpio later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1875"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1875" and ∠1927".
Worm Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2098 after 27 days on 15 April 2098 at 19:04.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 24 March 2098 at 18:26
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 1 April 2098 at 19:47
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 8 April 2098 at 22:56
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 15 April 2098 at 19:04
Neap tide
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunation 1214 / 2167
The Moon is 17 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1214 of Meeus index or 2167 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.66 days
Length of current 1214 lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 45 minutes. It is 3 hours longer than next lunation 1215 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 1 minute longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 2 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠225.5°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠225.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠260.4°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after perigee
4 days after point of perigee on 14 March 2098 at 23:15 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 26 March 2098 at 18:28 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 382 245 km
Moon is 382 245 km (237 516 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 7 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 823 km (251 545 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♎ Libra at 05:21 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from North to South. Moon will follow the southern part of its orbit for the next 14 days to meet ascending node on 2 April 2098 at 16:45 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
13 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the middle to the last part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
7 days after previous North standstill on 11 March 2098 at 15:13 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.231°. Next 5 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.293° in the next southern standstill on 24 March 2098 at 17:32 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 13 days
After 13 days on 1 April 2098 at 19:47 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.