Waning
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 71% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 71% and getting smaller. The 20 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 19 March 2011 at 18:10.
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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1910"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1910" and ∠1924".
Worm Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2011 after 24 days on 18 April 2011 at 02:44.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 26 March 2011 at 12:07
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 3 April 2011 at 14:32
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 11 April 2011 at 12:05
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 18 April 2011 at 02:44
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 138 / 1091
The Moon is 20 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 138 of Meeus index or 1091 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.74 days
Length of current 138 lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 46 minutes. It is 1 hour and 28 minutes longer than next lunation 139 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 2 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 1 minute shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠167°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠167°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠190.9°. 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 after perigee
4 days after point of perigee on 19 March 2011 at 19:09 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 8 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 2 April 2011 at 09:00 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 375 347 km
Moon is 375 347 km (233 230 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 8 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 656 km (252 684 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after its descending node on 13 March 2011 at 11:55 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 25 March 2011 at 21:09 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
25 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days after previous North standstill on 12 March 2011 at 17:06 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠23.825°. Next day the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-23.716° in the next southern standstill on 25 March 2011 at 05:02 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 10 days
After 10 days on 3 April 2011 at 14:32 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.