Last
Quarter* ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 66% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 66% and getting smaller. The 20 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
Moon phases for next 7 days
Monday Mon
Tuesday Tue
Wednesday Wed
Thursday Thu
Friday Fri
Saturday Sat
Sunday Sun
Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 25 February 2013 at 20:26.
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 ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1963"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1963" and ∠1935".
Snow Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2013 after 23 days on 27 March 2013 at 09:27.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 4 March 2013 at 21:53
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 11 March 2013 at 19:51
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 19 March 2013 at 17:27
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 27 March 2013 at 09:27
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 162 / 1115
The Moon is 20 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 162 of Meeus index or 1115 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.52 days
Length of current 162 lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 31 minutes. It is 1 hour and 13 minutes shorter than next lunation 163 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 13 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 56 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠44.2°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠44.2°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠73.6°. 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 before perigee
12 days after point of apogee on 19 February 2013 at 06:30 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 2 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 5 March 2013 at 23:20 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 365 092 km
Moon is 365 092 km (226 858 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 2 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 369 954 km (229 879 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♏ Scorpio at 02:30 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from South to North. Moon will follow the northern part of its orbit for the next 12 days to meet descending node on 16 March 2013 at 06:15 in ♉ Taurus.
New draconic month
At 02:30 on this date the Moon is completing its previous draconic month and is entering the new one.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days after previous North standstill on 19 February 2013 at 13:35 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠20.583°. Next day the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-20.453° in the next southern standstill on 5 March 2013 at 06:41 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 8 days
After 8 days on 11 March 2013 at 19:51 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.