Waning
Gibbous ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 91% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 91% and getting smaller. The 17 days old Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 13 February 2006 at 04:44.
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 ∠3° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1781"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1781" and ∠1942".
Snow Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2006 after 26 days on 14 March 2006 at 23:35.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 21 February 2006 at 07:17
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 28 February 2006 at 00:31
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 6 March 2006 at 20:16
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 14 March 2006 at 23:35
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 75 / 1028
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 75 of Meeus index or 1028 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 16 minutes. It is 32 minutes longer 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 28 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 41 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠347.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠347.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠2.9°.
Moon after apogee
2 days after point of apogee on 14 February 2006 at 00:48 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 27 February 2006 at 20:27 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 402 434 km
The Moon is 402 434 km (250 061 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 885 km (221 758 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♍ Virgo at 14:38 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 13 days later on 1 March 2006 at 16:25 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 8 February 2006 at 18:18 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.555°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.648° at the point of next southern standstill on 23 February 2006 at 09:37 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 28 February 2006 at 00:31 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.
