Waning
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 97% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 97% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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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 26 March 2100 at 01:05.
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 ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1922".
Worm Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2100 after 27 days on 24 April 2100 at 09:43.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 1 April 2100 at 16:35
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 9 April 2100 at 16:16
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 17 April 2100 at 16:42
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 24 April 2100 at 09:43
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 1239 / 2192
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 1239 of Meeus index or 2192 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.74 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 48 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2100. It is 1 hour and 11 minutes longer 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 5 hours and 4 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 59 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠151.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠151.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠176.6°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 26 March 2100 at 14:59 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 10 April 2100 at 01:45 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 363 369 km
The Moon is 363 369 km (225 787 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 13 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 566 km (252 628 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after descending node on 24 March 2100 at 20:18 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 6 April 2100 at 22:10 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
16 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
8 days since the previous standstill on 19 March 2100 at 01:51 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.566°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.525° at the point of next southern standstill on 31 March 2100 at 15:42 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 13 days
In 13 days on 9 April 2100 at 16:16 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.
