Waning
Gibbous ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 99% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99% and getting smaller. The 15 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 28 February 2029 at 17:10.
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 passing about ∠22° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1968"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1968" and ∠1936".
Snow Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2029 after 28 days on 30 March 2029 at 02:26.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 7 March 2029 at 07:52
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 15 March 2029 at 04:19
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 23 March 2029 at 07:33
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 30 March 2029 at 02:26
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 360 / 1313
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 360 of Meeus index or 1313 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.74 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 48 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2029. It is 27 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 4 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 59 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠136.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠136.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠164.5°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 18:30. It is 12 days after previous apogee on 17 February 2029 at 11:59 in ♈ Aries. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 15 days, until point of next apogee on 16 March 2029 at 21:33 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 358 626 km
This perigee Moon is 358 626 km (222 840 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 882 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 11 730 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
4 days after descending node on 24 February 2029 at 16:44 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 9 March 2029 at 05:00 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
19 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 22 February 2029 at 22:00 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.019°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.921° at the point of next southern standstill on 7 March 2029 at 11:58 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 13 days
In 13 days on 15 March 2029 at 04:19 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.
