Waning
Gibbous ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 99% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99% and getting smaller. The 15 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 14 March 2082 at 16:45.
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 ∠7° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1929".
Worm Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2082 after 28 days on 13 April 2082 at 01:45.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 21 March 2082 at 08:37
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 29 March 2082 at 09:05
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 6 April 2082 at 09:02
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 13 April 2082 at 01:45
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 1016 / 1969
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1016 of Meeus index or 1969 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.76 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 16 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2082. It is 1 hour and 19 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 32 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 31 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠154.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠154.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠179.1°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 04:17. It is 12 days after previous apogee on 2 March 2082 at 08:00 in ♈ Aries. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 13 days, until point of next apogee on 29 March 2082 at 11:30 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 357 173 km
This perigee Moon is 357 173 km (221 937 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 335 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 13 183 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
2 days after descending node on 13 March 2082 at 11:29 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 26 March 2082 at 13:54 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
16 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 8 March 2082 at 11:16 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.286°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.248° at the point of next southern standstill on 20 March 2082 at 23:38 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 13 days
In 13 days on 29 March 2082 at 09:05 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.
