Waning
Gibbous ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 97% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 97% 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 13 March 2044 at 19:41.
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 ∠16° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1829"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1829" and ∠1929".
Worm Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2044 after 27 days on 12 April 2044 at 09:39.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 21 March 2044 at 16:52
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 29 March 2044 at 09:26
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 5 April 2044 at 03:45
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 12 April 2044 at 09:39
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 546 / 1499
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 546 of Meeus index or 1499 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.55 days
Length of current 546 lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 14 minutes. It is 2 hours and 58 minutes longer than next lunation 547 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 30 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 6 hours and 33 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠272.5°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠272.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠304.8°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before apogee
7 days after point of perigee on 7 March 2044 at 20:36 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 21 March 2044 at 01:56 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 391 816 km
Moon is 391 816 km (243 463 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 5 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 337 km (251 243 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after its descending node on 13 March 2044 at 13:10 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 12 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 27 March 2044 at 23:51 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
14 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
7 days after previous North standstill on 7 March 2044 at 16:53 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.650°. Next 5 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.641° in the next southern standstill on 21 March 2044 at 10:24 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 13 days
After 13 days on 29 March 2044 at 09:26 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.