Waning
Gibbous ♎ Libra
Moon phase on 28 February 2021 Sunday is Waning Gibbous, 16 days old Moon is in Virgo.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaning 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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Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 27 February 2021 at 08:17.
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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♎ Libra later.
Lunar disc appears visually 0% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1937" and ∠1937".
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2021 after 28 days on 28 March 2021 at 18:48.
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.
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.
Length of current 261 lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 15 minutes. It is 55 minutes shorter than next lunation 262 length.
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.
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°).
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.
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).
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.
7 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
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.
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.