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

Waning Gibbous in Scorpio

Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 80% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 19 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

The 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 phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♏ Scorpio

Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 25 February 2051 at 14:53.

Snow Moon before 4 days

Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2051 after 24 days on 27 March 2051 at 09:00.

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 ∠1780"

Lunar disc appears visually 8.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1780" and ∠1936".

Lunation 632 / 1585

The Moon is 19 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 632 of Meeus index or 1585 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.42 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 11 minutes and it is 1 hour and 4 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 2 hours and 33 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 36 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠334.7°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠334.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠351.3°.

Moon after apogee

2 days since point of apogee on 28 February 2051 at 09:20 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 13 March 2051 at 05:02 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 402 670 km

The Moon is 402 670 km (250 208 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 407 km (222 082 mi).

Moon in ascending node

Moon is in ascending node in ♏ Scorpio at 09:34 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next descending node later on 15 March 2051 at 09:57 in ♉ Taurus.

Moon before southern standstill

10 days since the last northern standstill on 19 February 2051 at 14:53 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.472° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.338° at the point of next southern standstill on 6 March 2051 at 08:27 in ♐ Sagittarius.

New draconic month

At 09:34 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.

Syzygy in 10 days

In 10 days on 12 March 2051 at 16:52 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