Waning
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
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Waning Gibbous 79% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 79% and getting smaller. The 19 days old Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 14 February 2052 at 18:21.
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 ∠25° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1774"
Lunar disc appears visually 9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1774" and ∠1941".
Snow Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2052 after 24 days on 15 March 2052 at 09:54.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 22 February 2052 at 18:44
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 1 March 2052 at 07:36
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 8 March 2052 at 01:17
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 15 March 2052 at 09:54
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 644 / 1597
The Moon is 19 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 644 of Meeus index or 1597 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.55 days
Length of current 644 lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 6 minutes. It is 2 hours and 15 minutes longer than next lunation 645 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 22 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 6 hours and 41 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠285.5°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠285.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠314.8°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before apogee
12 days after point of perigee on 6 February 2052 at 18:01 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next apogee on 21 February 2052 at 10:01 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 404 028 km
Moon is 404 028 km (251 051 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next day until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 402 km (251 284 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after its ascending node on 18 February 2052 at 16:11 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 13 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 3 March 2052 at 14:47 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
1 day after beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
9 days after previous North standstill on 10 February 2052 at 09:08 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠18.554°. Next 5 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-18.455° in the next southern standstill on 24 February 2052 at 14:50 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 10 days
After 10 days on 1 March 2052 at 07:36 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.