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Moon ♍ Virgo
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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 14 March 2019 at 10:27.
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 ∠7° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1971"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1927".
Worm Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2019 after 1 day on 21 March 2019 at 01:43.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 21 March 2019 at 01:43
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 28 March 2019 at 04:10
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 5 April 2019 at 08:50
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 12 April 2019 at 19:06
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 237 / 1190
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 237 of Meeus index or 1190 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.7 days
Length of current 237 lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 47 minutes. It is 2 hours and 52 minutes longer than next lunation 238 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 2 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠200.2°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠200.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠228.7°. 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 in perigee
Moon is reaching point of perigee on this date at 19:47, this is 15 days after last apogee on 4 March 2019 at 11:25 in ♒ Aquarius. Lunar orbit is starting to get wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth for 12 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next apogee on 1 April 2019 at 00:14 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 359 381 km
This perigee Moon is 359 381 km (223 309 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 127 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 10 975 km farther than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
2 days after its ascending node on 16 March 2019 at 16:22 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 10 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 29 March 2019 at 13:08 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
2 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
3 days after previous North standstill on 15 March 2019 at 17:59 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠21.761°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-21.863° in the next southern standstill on 28 March 2019 at 13:02 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 1 day
After 1 day on 21 March 2019 at 01:43 in ♎ Libra, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.