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Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 64% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 64% and getting smaller. The 20 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 6 days on 22 February 2016 at 18:20.
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 ∠24° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1784"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1784" and ∠1936".
Snow Moon before 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2016 after 23 days on 23 March 2016 at 12:01.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 1 March 2016 at 23:11
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 9 March 2016 at 01:54
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 15 March 2016 at 17:03
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 23 March 2016 at 12:01
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 199 / 1152
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 199 of Meeus index or 1152 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.47 days
Length of current 199 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 16 minutes. It is 1 hour and 47 minutes longer than next lunation 200 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 28 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 41 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠319.8°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠319.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠339.5°. 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 after apogee
2 days after point of apogee on 27 February 2016 at 03:28 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 9 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 10 March 2016 at 07:02 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 401 885 km
Moon is 401 885 km (249 720 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 9 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 359 509 km (223 389 mi).
Moon after ascending node
5 days after its ascending node on 24 February 2016 at 06:10 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 8 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 9 March 2016 at 06:31 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
5 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days after previous North standstill on 17 February 2016 at 23:18 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠18.254°. Next 3 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-18.210° in the next southern standstill on 3 March 2016 at 14:19 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 8 days
After 8 days on 9 March 2016 at 01:54 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.