Waxing
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase on 26 March 2002 Tuesday is Waxing Gibbous, 12 days young Moon is in Virgo.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 92% and growing larger. The 12 days young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 22 March 2002 at 02:28.
Moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 2.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1967" and ∠1923".
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2002 after 2 days on 28 March 2002 at 18:25.
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.
The Moon is 12 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 27 of Meeus index or 980 from Brown series.
Length of current 27 lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 19 minutes. It is 1 hour and 55 minutes longer than next lunation 28 length.
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 35 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 28 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
This lunation true anomaly is ∠180.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠204.7°. 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°).
12 days after point of apogee on 14 March 2002 at 01:09 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next perigee on 28 March 2002 at 07:42 in ♎ Libra.
Moon is 364 491 km (226 484 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next day until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 357 012 km (221 837 mi).
5 days after its ascending node on 21 March 2002 at 08:14 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 7 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 2 April 2002 at 18:20 in ♐ Sagittarius.
5 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
3 days after previous North standstill on 22 March 2002 at 19:53 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠24.668°. Next 8 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-24.771° in the next southern standstill on 4 April 2002 at 08:23 in ♑ Capricorn.
After 2 days on 28 March 2002 at 18:25 in ♎ Libra, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.