Waning
Gibbous ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 98% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 98% 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 22 February 2035 at 08:54.
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 ∠19° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1861"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1861" and ∠1939".
Snow Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2035 after 28 days on 23 March 2035 at 22:42.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 2 March 2035 at 03:01
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 9 March 2035 at 23:09
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 16 March 2035 at 20:15
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 23 March 2035 at 22:42
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 434 / 1387
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 434 of Meeus index or 1387 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.62 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 47 minutes. It is 2 hours and 59 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 2 hours and 3 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠255.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠255.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠291.6°.
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 18 February 2035 at 05:31 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 2 March 2035 at 09:34 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 385 053 km
The Moon is 385 053 km (239 261 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 374 km (251 266 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♍ Virgo at 04:20 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 9 March 2035 at 15:01 in ♓ Pisces.
New draconic month
At 04:20 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 18 February 2035 at 04:16 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.402°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.382° at the point of next southern standstill on 4 March 2035 at 01:09 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 14 days
In 14 days on 9 March 2035 at 23:09 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.
