Waning
Gibbous ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 95% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 95% and getting smaller. The 17 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 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 ♎ Libra
Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1933".
Worm Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2091 after 27 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
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 1127 / 2080
The Moon is 17 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
The length of the 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 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 23 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 40 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠137.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠137.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠165.8°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 6 March 2091 at 16:02 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 21 March 2091 at 17:48 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 363 302 km
The Moon is 363 302 km (225 745 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 14 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 436 km (252 548 mi).
Moon after ascending node
2 days after ascending node on 5 March 2091 at 10:19 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 18 March 2091 at 15:30 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
2 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 28 February 2091 at 16:49 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.473°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.480° at the point of next southern standstill on 13 March 2091 at 06:18 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 20 March 2091 at 03:45 in ♓ Pisces 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.
