Waning
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 68% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 68% and getting smaller. The 20 days old Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 6 days on 3 February 2034 at 10:05.
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 is entering ♎ Libra
Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1945".
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.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 11 February 2034 at 11:09
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 18 February 2034 at 23:10
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 25 February 2034 at 16:34
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ 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.
Lunation 421 / 1374
The Moon is 20 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 421 of Meeus index or 1374 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.55 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 9 minutes. It is 2 hours and 5 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 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 position on
True anomaly ∠289°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠289°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠317.3°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 21:37. It is 15 days after previous perigee on 25 January 2034 at 21:19 in ♈ Aries. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 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 located north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 21 February 2034 at 05:47 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
2 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
9 days since the previous 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.
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.
