Waning Gibbous Moon
Waning Gibbous MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waning Gibbous in Sagittarius

Waning Gibbous on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 62% and getting smaller. Lunar cycle is 21 days old.

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.

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon is entering ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

5 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 28 February 2010 at 16:38.

Snow Moon before 5 days

Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2010 after 23 days on 30 March 2010 at 02:25.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1845"

Lunar disc appears visually 4.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1845" and ∠1934".

Lunation 125 / 1078

The Moon is 21 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 125 of Meeus index or 1078 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.76 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 10 minutes and it is 2 hours and 42 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit 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 5 hours and 26 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 37 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠188.9°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠188.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠215.2°.

Moon before apogee

6 days since point of perigee on 27 February 2010 at 21:40 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 12 March 2010 at 10:07 in ♒ Aquarius.

Distance to Moon 388 441 km

The Moon is 388 441 km (241 366 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 011 km (252 284 mi).

Moon before ascending node

9 days after descending node on 25 February 2010 at 09:11 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 10 March 2010 at 08:07 in ♑ Capricorn.

Moon before southern standstill

11 days since the last northern standstill on 23 February 2010 at 06:00 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.657° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-25.566° at the point of next southern standstill on 7 March 2010 at 21:18 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

23 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 9 days

In 9 days on 15 March 2010 at 21:01 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov