Waning Gibbous on

Moon phase on 20 March 2044 Sunday is Waning Gibbous, 21 days old Moon is in Sagittarius.

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Lunar calendar 2044 | March 2044

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

Waning Gibbous 61% illuminated

Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 61% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.

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Moon phase and lunation details

6 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 6 days 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 ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is passing about ∠17° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"

Lunar disc appears visually 8.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1926".

Worm Moon before 6 days

Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2044 after 22 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 21 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.

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Synodic month length 29.55 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 14 minutes. It is 2 hours and 58 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 30 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 33 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit position on

True anomaly ∠272.5°

At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠272.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠304.8°.

Moon before perigee

12 days after point of perigee on 7 March 2044 at 20:36 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 21 March 2044 at 01:56 in ♐ Sagittarius.

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Distance to Moon 405 388 km

The Moon is 405 388 km (251 896 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 337 km (251 243 mi).

Moon after descending node

6 days after descending node on 13 March 2044 at 13:10 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 27 March 2044 at 23:51 in ♓ Pisces.

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Draconic month

19 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.

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Moon before southern standstill

12 days since the previous standstill on 7 March 2044 at 16:53 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.650°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-28.641° at the point of next southern standstill on 21 March 2044 at 10:24 in ♐ Sagittarius.

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Syzygy in 8 days

In 8 days on 29 March 2044 at 09:26 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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