Waning
Gibbous ♎ Libra
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 ♎ 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 9 March 2001 at 17:23.
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 passing about ∠15° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1918"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1918" and ∠1931".
Worm Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2001 after 27 days on 8 April 2001 at 03:22.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 16 March 2001 at 20:45
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 25 March 2001 at 01:21
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 1 April 2001 at 10:49
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 8 April 2001 at 03:22
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 14 / 967
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 14 of Meeus index or 967 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.71 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 1 minute. It is 2 hours and 55 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 16 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 47 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠202.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠202.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠232.3°.
Moon after perigee
3 days after point of perigee on 8 March 2001 at 08:55 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 20 March 2001 at 11:25 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 373 790 km
The Moon is 373 790 km (232 262 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 473 km (251 949 mi).
Moon after ascending node
6 days after ascending node on 5 March 2001 at 07:23 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 18 March 2001 at 04:58 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
6 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 after northern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 5 March 2001 at 04:32 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.756°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-22.857° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 March 2001 at 03:47 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 13 days
In 13 days on 25 March 2001 at 01:21 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.
