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Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 61% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 61% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 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 ∠22° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1886"
Lunar disc appears visually 2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1886" and ∠1924".
Worm Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2011 after 23 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 21 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
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 46 minutes. It is 1 hour and 28 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 2 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 1 minute shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠167°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠167°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠190.9°.
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 19 March 2011 at 19:09 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 2 April 2011 at 09:00 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 380 046 km
The Moon is 380 046 km (236 150 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 656 km (252 684 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 21:09 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 15 days later on 9 April 2011 at 12:48 in ♊ Gemini.
New draconic month
At 21:09 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon at southern standstill
At 05:02 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-23.716°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠23.569° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 8 April 2011 at 22:55.
Syzygy in 9 days
In 9 days on 3 April 2011 at 14:32 in ♈ Aries 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.
