Waning
Gibbous ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
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 5 March 2034 at 02:10.
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 ♎ Libra
Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1784"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1784" and ∠1934".
Worm Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2034 after 28 days on 3 April 2034 at 19:19.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 13 March 2034 at 06:45
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 20 March 2034 at 10:14
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 27 March 2034 at 01:18
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 3 April 2034 at 19:19
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 422 / 1375
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 422 of Meeus index or 1375 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.46 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 4 minutes. It is 1 hour and 53 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 40 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 29 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠317.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠317.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠337.6°.
Moon before perigee
12 days after point of perigee on 21 February 2034 at 15:30 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 9 March 2034 at 16:05 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 401 823 km
The Moon is 401 823 km (249 681 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 268 km (251 822 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♍ Virgo at 14:21 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 20 March 2034 at 15:22 in ♓ Pisces.
New draconic month
At 14:21 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after northern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 27 February 2034 at 06:42 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.195°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.147° at the point of next southern standstill on 13 March 2034 at 19:10 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 13 days
In 13 days on 20 March 2034 at 10:14 in ♓ Pisces 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.
