Waning
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 81% and getting smaller. The 19 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 22 February 2016 at 18:20.
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 passing first ∠0° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 9.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1937".
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2016 after 25 days on 23 March 2016 at 12:01.
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.
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 199 of Meeus index or 1152 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 16 minutes. It is 1 hour and 47 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 28 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 41 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠319.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠339.5°.
Moon is at apogee at 03:28. It is 16 days after previous perigee on 11 February 2016 at 02:42 in ♓ Pisces. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 11 days, until point of next perigee on 10 March 2016 at 07:02 in ♈ Aries.
This apogee Moon is 405 383 km (251 893 mi) away from Earth. It is 25 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 326 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
3 days after ascending node on 24 February 2016 at 06:10 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 9 March 2016 at 06:31 in ♓ Pisces.
3 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
9 days since the previous standstill on 17 February 2016 at 23:18 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.254°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.210° at the point of next southern standstill on 3 March 2016 at 14:19 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 10 days on 9 March 2016 at 01:54 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.