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Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 60% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 60% 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 2030 at 17:56.
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 ∠23° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1960"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1960" and ∠1924".
Worm Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2030 after 23 days on 18 April 2030 at 03:20.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 26 March 2030 at 09:51
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 2 April 2030 at 22:02
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 11 April 2030 at 02:57
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 18 April 2030 at 03:20
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 373 / 1326
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 373 of Meeus index or 1326 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 28 minutes. It is 42 minutes shorter 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 44 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 19 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠104.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠104.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠139°.
Moon after perigee
3 days after point of perigee on 21 March 2030 at 22:00 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 6 April 2030 at 18:47 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 365 656 km
The Moon is 365 656 km (227 208 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 659 km (252 065 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 05:48 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 8 April 2030 at 08:29 in ♊ Gemini.
New draconic month
At 05:48 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon at southern standstill
At 03:57 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-23.011°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠22.881° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 8 April 2030 at 08:53.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 2 April 2030 at 22:02 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.
