Waning
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 96% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 96% 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 7 February 2031 at 12:46.
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 ∠13° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1841"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1841" and ∠1945".
Snow Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2031 after 27 days on 9 March 2031 at 04:30.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 14 February 2031 at 22:50
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 21 February 2031 at 15:49
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 1 March 2031 at 04:02
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 9 March 2031 at 04:30
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 384 / 1337
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 384 of Meeus index or 1337 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.47 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 18 minutes. It is 42 minutes shorter 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 26 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 43 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠21.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠21.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠41.9°.
Moon after apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 2 February 2031 at 23:45 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 February 2031 at 00:35 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 389 351 km
The Moon is 389 351 km (241 931 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 745 km (226 642 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after descending node on 1 February 2031 at 09:25 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 15 February 2031 at 11:21 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
21 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 2 February 2031 at 12:52 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.745°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.615° at the point of next southern standstill on 16 February 2031 at 13:25 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 21 February 2031 at 15:49 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.
