Waning
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
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
5 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 14 February 2033 at 07:04.
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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♏ Scorpio later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1786"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1786" and ∠1941".
Snow Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2033 after 24 days on 16 March 2033 at 01:37.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 22 February 2033 at 11:53
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 1 March 2033 at 08:23
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 8 March 2033 at 01:27
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 16 March 2033 at 01:37
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 409 / 1362
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 409 of Meeus index or 1362 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 24 minutes. It is 56 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 20 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 49 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠336.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠336.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠353°.
Moon after apogee
2 days after point of apogee on 16 February 2033 at 19:57 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 1 March 2033 at 18:17 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 401 301 km
The Moon is 401 301 km (249 357 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 180 km (221 941 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♎ Libra at 01:22 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 12 days later on 4 March 2033 at 01:01 in ♈ Aries.
New draconic month
At 01:22 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before southern standstill
10 days since the previous standstill on 9 February 2033 at 07:09 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.889°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.763° at the point of next southern standstill on 24 February 2033 at 01:02 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 9 days
In 9 days on 1 March 2033 at 08:23 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.
