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

Waning Gibbous in Libra

Waning Gibbous on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 92% and getting smaller. Lunar cycle is 17 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 ♎ Libra

Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 12 February 2025 at 13:53.

Snow Moon before 2 days

Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2025 after 26 days on 14 March 2025 at 06:55.

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 ∠1778"

Lunar disc appears visually 8.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1778" and ∠1942".

Lunation 310 / 1263

The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 310 of Meeus index or 1263 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.51 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 9 minutes and it is 1 hour and 56 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 shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 35 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 34 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠305.9°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠305.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠329.3°.

Moon before apogee

13 days since point of perigee on 2 February 2025 at 02:43 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 18 February 2025 at 01:11 in ♏ Scorpio.

Distance to Moon 403 102 km

The Moon is 403 102 km (250 476 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 882 km (251 582 mi).

Moon in descending node

Moon is in descending node in ♍ Virgo at 06:53 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 1 March 2025 at 05:40 in ♓ Pisces.

Moon after northern standstill

7 days since the last northern standstill on 8 February 2025 at 10:40 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.599° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.673° at the point of next southern standstill on 22 February 2025 at 22:32 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 12 days

In 12 days on 28 February 2025 at 00:45 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.

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