Waning
Gibbous ♎ Libra
Moon phase on 17 March 2033 Thursday is Waning Gibbous, 16 days old Moon is in Libra.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaning 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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Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 16 March 2033 at 01:37.
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 passing about ∠13° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 8.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1772" and ∠1928".
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2033 after 28 days on 14 April 2033 at 19:17.
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.
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.
Length of current 410 lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 28 minutes. It is 33 minutes longer than next lunation 411 length.
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 16 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 53 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠353°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠8.3°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
1 day after point of apogee on 15 March 2033 at 22:00 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 12 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 30 March 2033 at 06:09 in ♈ Aries.
Moon is 404 441 km (251 308 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 12 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 357 444 km (222 105 mi).
13 days after its descending node on 4 March 2033 at 01:01 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 18 March 2033 at 05:18 in ♎ Libra.
26 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
8 days after previous North standstill on 8 March 2033 at 13:21 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠18.688°. Next 5 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-18.613° in the next southern standstill on 23 March 2033 at 08:32 in ♐ Sagittarius.
After 13 days on 30 March 2033 at 17:52 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.