Waning
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 70% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 70% and getting smaller. The 20 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 9 March 2031 at 04:30.
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 is entering ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1957"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1957" and ∠1930".
Worm Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2031 after 24 days on 7 April 2031 at 17:21.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 16 March 2031 at 06:36
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 23 March 2031 at 03:49
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 31 March 2031 at 00:32
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 7 April 2031 at 17:21
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 385 / 1338
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 385 of Meeus index or 1338 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.5 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 1 minute. It is 1 hour and 8 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 44 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 25 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠41.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠41.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠70.3°.
Moon before apogee
11 days after point of apogee on 2 March 2031 at 18:57 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 17 March 2031 at 18:58 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 366 344 km
The Moon is 366 344 km (227 636 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 634 km (229 680 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 11:38 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 27 March 2031 at 14:22 in ♉ Taurus.
New draconic month
At 11:38 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before southern standstill
12 days since the previous standstill on 1 March 2031 at 20:54 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.491°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-21.353° at the point of next southern standstill on 15 March 2031 at 19:06 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 23 March 2031 at 03:49 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.
