Waning
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 89% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 89% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 3 March 2007 at 23:17.
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 ∠25° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1769"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1933".
Worm Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2007 after 26 days on 2 April 2007 at 17:15.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 12 March 2007 at 03:54
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 19 March 2007 at 02:43
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 25 March 2007 at 18:16
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 2 April 2007 at 17:15
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 88 / 1041
The Moon is 18 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 88 of Meeus index or 1041 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.44 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 28 minutes. It is 1 hour and 35 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 16 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 53 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠331.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠331.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠348.7°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 03:37. It is 15 days after previous perigee on 19 February 2007 at 09:34 in ♓ Pisces. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 12 days, until point of next perigee on 19 March 2007 at 18:39 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 405 851 km
This apogee Moon is 405 851 km (252 184 mi) away from Earth. It is 443 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 858 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
3 days after descending node on 4 March 2007 at 05:31 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 18 March 2007 at 07:40 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
9 days since the previous standstill on 25 February 2007 at 23:35 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.600°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.608° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 March 2007 at 16:11 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 19 March 2007 at 02:43 in ♓ Pisces 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.
