Waxing Gibbous on

Moon phase on 31 March 2007 Saturday is Waxing Gibbous, 13 days young Moon is in Virgo.

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Lunar calendar 2007 | March 2007

Waxing Gibbous phase
Waxing Gibbous phase
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.

Waxing Gibbous 96% illuminated

Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 96% and growing larger. The 13 days young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.

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Moon phase and lunation details

5 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 25 March 2007 at 18:16.

Moonrise and moonset

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 in ♍ Virgo

Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1783"

Lunar disc appears visually 7.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1783" and ∠1921".

Pink Moon after 2 days

Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2007 after 2 days on 2 April 2007 at 17:15.

Upcoming main Moon phases

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 89 / 1042

The Moon is 13 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 89 of Meeus index or 1042 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.37 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 53 minutes. It is 1 hour and 2 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 shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 51 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 18 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit position on

True anomaly ∠348.7°

At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠348.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠4°.

Moon before perigee

11 days after point of perigee on 19 March 2007 at 18:39 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 3 April 2007 at 08:38 in ♎ Libra.

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Distance to Moon 402 048 km

The Moon is 402 048 km (249 821 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 327 km (252 480 mi).

Moon in descending node

Moon is in descending node in ♍ Virgo at 11:41 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 14 days later on 14 April 2007 at 17:34 in ♓ Pisces.

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Draconic month

13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.

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Moon after northern standstill

6 days since the previous standstill on 25 March 2007 at 05:37 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.582°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.510° at the point of next southern standstill on 8 April 2007 at 23:01 in ♐ Sagittarius.

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Syzygy in 2 days

In 2 days on 2 April 2007 at 17:15 in ♎ Libra the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.

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