Waning
Gibbous ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 98% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 98% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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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 24 February 2005 at 04:54.
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 ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1815"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1815" and ∠1938".
Snow Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2005 after 28 days on 25 March 2005 at 20:58.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 3 March 2005 at 17:36
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 10 March 2005 at 09:10
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 17 March 2005 at 19:19
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 25 March 2005 at 20:58
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 63 / 1016
The Moon is 16 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 63 of Meeus index or 1016 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
Length of current 63 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 42 minutes. It is 40 minutes shorter than next lunation 64 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 2 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 7 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠17.1°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠17.1°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠36.2°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon after apogee
5 days after point of apogee on 20 February 2005 at 04:59 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 8 March 2005 at 03:42 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 394 811 km
Moon is 394 811 km (245 324 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 10 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 363 235 km (225 704 mi).
Moon before descending node
12 days after its ascending node on 13 February 2005 at 10:25 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 2 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 28 February 2005 at 00:10 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
12 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
6 days after previous North standstill on 19 February 2005 at 01:13 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.152°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.257° in the next southern standstill on 5 March 2005 at 04:40 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 12 days
After 12 days on 10 March 2005 at 09:10 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.