Waning
Gibbous ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 92% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 92% and getting smaller. The 17 days old Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 16 February 2003 at 23:51.
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 is entering ♎ Libra
Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1962"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1962" and ∠1941".
Snow Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2003 after 26 days on 18 March 2003 at 10:34.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 23 February 2003 at 16:46
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 3 March 2003 at 02:35
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 11 March 2003 at 07:15
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 18 March 2003 at 10:34
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 38 / 991
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 38 of Meeus index or 991 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.66 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 47 minutes. It is 57 minutes shorter 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 3 hours and 3 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠90.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠90.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠127.8°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 16:19. It is 11 days after previous apogee on 7 February 2003 at 21:58 in ♈ Aries. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 16 days, until point of next apogee on 7 March 2003 at 16:34 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 364 844 km
This perigee Moon is 364 844 km (226 704 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 336 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 5 512 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
8 days after ascending node on 10 February 2003 at 17:39 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 23 February 2003 at 15:47 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
8 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 13 February 2003 at 10:59 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.923°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.015° at the point of next southern standstill on 26 February 2003 at 05:53 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 3 March 2003 at 02:35 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.
