Waning
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 87% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 87% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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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 11 March 2009 at 02:38.
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 ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠6° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1822"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1822" and ∠1929".
Worm Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2009 after 26 days on 9 April 2009 at 14:56.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 18 March 2009 at 17:47
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 26 March 2009 at 16:06
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 2 April 2009 at 14:34
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 9 April 2009 at 14:56
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 113 / 1066
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 113 of Meeus index or 1066 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.6 days
Length of current 113 lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 31 minutes. It is 3 hours and 14 minutes longer than next lunation 114 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 47 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 16 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠246.2°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠246.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠282.4°. 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°).
Moon before apogee
6 days after point of perigee on 7 March 2009 at 15:06 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 19 March 2009 at 13:16 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 393 325 km
Moon is 393 325 km (244 401 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 5 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 302 km (251 222 mi).
Moon after descending node
6 days after its descending node on 8 March 2009 at 04:05 in ♌ Leo, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 7 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 22 March 2009 at 02:12 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
19 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
9 days after previous North standstill on 4 March 2009 at 21:34 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠26.987°. Next 3 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-26.896° in the next southern standstill on 18 March 2009 at 05:07 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 12 days
After 12 days on 26 March 2009 at 16:06 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.