Waning Gibbous on

Moon phase on 17 March 2033 Thursday is Waning Gibbous, 16 days old Moon is in Libra.

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Waning Gibbous phase
Waning Gibbous phase
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.

Waning Gibbous 98% illuminated

Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 98% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♎ Libra.

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Moon phase and lunation details

1 day after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 16 March 2033 at 01:37.

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 ♎ Libra

Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1772"

Lunar disc appears visually 8.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1772" and ∠1928".

Worm Moon before 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2033 after 28 days on 14 April 2033 at 19:17.

Upcoming main Moon phases

  • Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 24 March 2033 at 01:50
  • New Moon in Aries ♈ on 30 March 2033 at 17:52
  • First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 6 April 2033 at 15:14
  • Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 14 April 2033 at 19:17

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 410 / 1363

The Moon is 16 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 410 of Meeus index or 1363 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.39 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 28 minutes. It is 33 minutes longer 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 3 hours and 16 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 53 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit position on

True anomaly ∠353°

At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠353°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠8.3°.

Moon after apogee

1 day after point of apogee on 15 March 2033 at 22:00 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 30 March 2033 at 06:09 in ♈ Aries.

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Distance to Moon 404 441 km

The Moon is 404 441 km (251 308 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 444 km (222 105 mi).

Moon before ascending node

13 days after descending node on 4 March 2033 at 01:01 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 18 March 2033 at 05:18 in ♎ Libra.

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Draconic month

26 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.

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Moon before southern standstill

8 days since the previous standstill on 8 March 2033 at 13:21 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.688°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.613° at the point of next southern standstill on 23 March 2033 at 08:32 in ♐ Sagittarius.

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Syzygy in 13 days

In 13 days on 30 March 2033 at 17:52 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.

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