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 ♍ Virgo.
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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 2091 at 15:59.
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 ♍ Virgo
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♎ Libra later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1969"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1969" and ∠1934".
Worm Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2091 after 28 days on 4 April 2091 at 01:31.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 12 March 2091 at 07:02
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 20 March 2091 at 03:45
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 28 March 2091 at 06:31
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 4 April 2091 at 01:31
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 1127 / 2080
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 1127 of Meeus index or 2080 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.75 days
Length of current 1127 lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 7 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2091. It is 33 minutes longer than next lunation 1128 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 23 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 40 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠137.9°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠137.9°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠165.8°. 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 in perigee
Moon is reaching point of perigee on this date at 16:02, this is 12 days after last apogee on 22 February 2091 at 08:37 in ♈ Aries. Lunar orbit is starting to get wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth for 15 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next apogee on 21 March 2091 at 17:48 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 358 572 km
This perigee Moon is 358 572 km (222 806 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 936 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 11 784 km farther than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
1 day after its ascending node on 5 March 2091 at 10:19 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 12 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 18 March 2091 at 15:30 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
1 day after beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days after previous North standstill on 28 February 2091 at 16:49 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠18.473°. Next 6 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-18.480° in the next southern standstill on 13 March 2091 at 06:18 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 13 days
After 13 days on 20 March 2091 at 03:45 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.