Waning
Gibbous ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 89% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 89% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 19 February 2038 at 16:09.
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 passing about ∠13° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1939".
Snow Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2038 after 26 days on 21 March 2038 at 02:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 26 February 2038 at 06:56
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 5 March 2038 at 23:15
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 14 March 2038 at 03:42
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 21 March 2038 at 02:09
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 471 / 1424
The Moon is 18 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 471 of Meeus index or 1424 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.72 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 23 minutes. It is 5 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 39 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 24 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠117.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠117.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠149.9°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 21 February 2038 at 08:05 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 9 March 2038 at 00:39 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 363 324 km
The Moon is 363 324 km (225 759 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 14 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 184 km (252 391 mi).
Moon after ascending node
5 days after ascending node on 16 February 2038 at 17:30 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 1 March 2038 at 08:52 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
5 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 16 February 2038 at 04:53 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.250°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-22.311° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 February 2038 at 20:34 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 5 March 2038 at 23:15 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.
