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 79% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 19 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 in ♎ Libra

Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♏ Scorpio later.

4 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 17 February 2049 at 20:47.

Snow Moon before 4 days

Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2049 after 25 days on 19 March 2049 at 12:23.

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 ∠1897"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1897" and ∠1939".

Lunation 607 / 1560

The Moon is 19 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 607 of Meeus index or 1560 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.46 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 56 minutes and it is 32 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 48 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 21 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠20°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠20° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠39.7°.

Moon before perigee

8 days since point of apogee on 13 February 2049 at 12:40 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 1 March 2049 at 12:45 in ♒ Aquarius.

Distance to Moon 377 847 km

The Moon is 377 847 km (234 783 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 178 km (226 290 mi).

Moon before ascending node

10 days after descending node on 11 February 2049 at 17:32 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 25 February 2049 at 20:27 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Moon before southern standstill

10 days since the last northern standstill on 11 February 2049 at 21:45 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.719° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-22.575° at the point of next southern standstill on 26 February 2049 at 03:09 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

23 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 9 days

In 9 days on 4 March 2049 at 00:11 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.

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