Waning
Gibbous ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 76% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 76% and getting smaller. The 19 days old Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 2 February 2007 at 05:45.
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 ♎ Libra
Moon is passing about ∠17° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1945".
Snow Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2007 after 24 days on 3 March 2007 at 23:17.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 10 February 2007 at 09:51
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 17 February 2007 at 16:14
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 24 February 2007 at 07:56
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 3 March 2007 at 23:17
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 87 / 1040
The Moon is 19 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 87 of Meeus index or 1040 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.51 days
Length of current 87 lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 14 minutes. It is 1 hour and 46 minutes longer than next lunation 88 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 30 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 39 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠308.6°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠308.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠331.4°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon in apogee
Moon is reaching point of apogee on this date at 12:39, this is 16 days after last perigee on 22 January 2007 at 12:24 in ♓ Pisces. Lunar orbit is starting to get closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth for 11 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next perigee on 19 February 2007 at 09:34 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 404 990 km
This apogee Moon is 404 990 km (251 649 mi) away from Earth. It is 418 km farther than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 719 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
2 days after its descending node on 4 February 2007 at 22:44 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 11 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 18 February 2007 at 20:43 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
15 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
8 days after previous North standstill on 29 January 2007 at 18:19 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.501°. Next 5 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.568° in the next southern standstill on 13 February 2007 at 07:33 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 10 days
After 10 days on 17 February 2007 at 16:14 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.