Waning
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 70% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 70% and getting smaller. The 20 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 8 March 2050 at 15:23.
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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1877"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1877" and ∠1929".
Worm Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2050 after 23 days on 7 April 2050 at 08:12.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 16 March 2050 at 10:08
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 23 March 2050 at 00:41
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 30 March 2050 at 04:17
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 7 April 2050 at 08:12
Neap tide
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunation 620 / 1573
The Moon is 20 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 620 of Meeus index or 1573 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.4 days
Length of current 620 lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 37 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2050. It is 8 minutes shorter than next lunation 621 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 7 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 2 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠5.4°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠5.4°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠21.6°. 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°).
Moon before perigee
8 days after point of apogee on 6 March 2050 at 08:19 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 21 March 2050 at 17:48 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 381 787 km
Moon is 381 787 km (237 231 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 7 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 359 625 km (223 461 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after its ascending node on 13 March 2050 at 20:52 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 11 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 26 March 2050 at 10:48 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
1 day after beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
13 days after previous North standstill on 1 March 2050 at 05:11 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠20.850°. Next day the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-20.702° in the next southern standstill on 15 March 2050 at 22:17 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 8 days
After 8 days on 23 March 2050 at 00:41 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.