Waning Gibbous Moon
Waning Gibbous MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waning Gibbous in Libra

Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 68% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 20 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

The 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 phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon is entering ♎ Libra

Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.

6 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 6 days on 3 February 2034 at 10:05.

Snow Moon before 6 days

Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2034 after 23 days on 5 March 2034 at 02:10.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"

Lunar disc appears visually 9.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1945".

Lunation 421 / 1374

The Moon is 20 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 421 of Meeus index or 1374 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.55 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 9 minutes and it is 2 hours and 5 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit 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 25 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 38 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠289°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠289° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠317.3°.

Moon at apogee

Moon is at apogee at 21:37 about 15 days since last perigee on 25 January 2034 at 21:19 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next perigee on 21 February 2034 at 15:30 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 404 475 km

This apogee Moon is 404 475 km (251 329 mi) away from Earth. It is 933 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 234 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.

Moon after ascending node

2 days after ascending node on 7 February 2034 at 08:04 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 21 February 2034 at 05:47 in ♈ Aries.

Moon before southern standstill

9 days since the last northern standstill on 31 January 2034 at 00:32 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.344° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.256° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 February 2034 at 10:08 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 9 days

In 9 days on 18 February 2034 at 23:10 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov