Waning
Gibbous ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 98% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 98% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 27 February 2021 at 08:17.
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 ♍ Virgo
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♎ Libra later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1937"
Lunar disc appears visually 0% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1937" and ∠1937".
Snow Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2021 after 28 days on 28 March 2021 at 18:48.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 6 March 2021 at 01:30
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 13 March 2021 at 10:21
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 21 March 2021 at 14:40
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 28 March 2021 at 18:48
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 261 / 1214
The Moon is 16 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 261 of Meeus index or 1214 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
Length of current 261 lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 15 minutes. It is 55 minutes shorter than next lunation 262 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 31 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 32 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠87°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠87°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠124.3°. 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
10 days after point of apogee on 18 February 2021 at 10:22 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next perigee on 2 March 2021 at 05:19 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 370 009 km
Moon is 370 009 km (229 913 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next day until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 365 422 km (227 063 mi).
Moon before descending node
7 days after its ascending node on 21 February 2021 at 01:44 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 5 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 6 March 2021 at 00:56 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
7 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days after previous North standstill on 23 February 2021 at 00:12 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠25.056°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-25.161° in the next southern standstill on 7 March 2021 at 20:45 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 12 days
After 12 days on 13 March 2021 at 10:21 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.