Waning Gibbous on

Moon phase on 3 February 2045 Friday is Waning Gibbous, 16 days old Moon is in Virgo.

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Lunar calendar 2045 | February 2045

Waning Gibbous phase
Waning Gibbous phase
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.

Waning Gibbous 96% illuminated

Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 96% 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 1 February 2045 at 21:05.

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 in ♍ Virgo

Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1950"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1950" and ∠1946".

Snow Moon before 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2045 after 27 days on 3 March 2045 at 07:52.

Upcoming main Moon phases

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 557 / 1510

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 557 of Meeus index or 1510 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.81 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 26 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2045. It is 2 hours and 2 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 6 hours and 42 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 21 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit position on

True anomaly ∠182.1°

At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠182.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠207.6°.

Moon after perigee

2 days after point of perigee on 1 February 2045 at 08:43 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 14 February 2045 at 02:57 in ♑ Capricorn.

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Distance to Moon 367 507 km

The Moon is 367 507 km (228 358 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 254 km (252 435 mi).

Moon in descending node

Moon is in descending node in ♍ Virgo at 02:18 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 13 days later on 17 February 2045 at 06:00 in ♓ Pisces.

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Draconic month

13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.

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Moon after northern standstill

4 days since the previous standstill on 29 January 2045 at 16:53 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.156°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.184° at the point of next southern standstill on 11 February 2045 at 15:40 in ♐ Sagittarius.

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Syzygy in 13 days

In 13 days on 16 February 2045 at 23:51 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.

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