Waning
Gibbous ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 78% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 78% and getting smaller. The 19 days old Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 1 February 2026 at 22:09.
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 ♎ Libra
Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1807"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1807" and ∠1946".
Snow Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2026 after 24 days on 3 March 2026 at 11:38.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 9 February 2026 at 12:43
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 17 February 2026 at 12:01
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 24 February 2026 at 12:28
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 3 March 2026 at 11:38
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 322 / 1275
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 322 of Meeus index or 1275 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.67 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 9 minutes. It is 2 hours 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°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 25 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 38 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠239°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠239°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠276.3°.
Moon before perigee
7 days after point of perigee on 29 January 2026 at 21:53 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 10 February 2026 at 16:52 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 396 665 km
The Moon is 396 665 km (246 476 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 577 km (251 392 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after descending node on 3 February 2026 at 19:18 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 18 February 2026 at 06:19 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
15 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 29 January 2026 at 17:02 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.361°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.406° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 February 2026 at 12:56 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 17 February 2026 at 12:01 in ♒ Aquarius 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.
