Waning
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
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
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 6 minutes. It is 2 hours and 15 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 22 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 41 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠285.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠285.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠314.8°.
Moon before perigee
12 days after point of perigee on 6 February 2052 at 18:01 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 21 February 2052 at 10:01 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 404 028 km
The Moon is 404 028 km (251 051 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 402 km (251 284 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 18 February 2052 at 16:11 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 13 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 3 March 2052 at 14:47 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 10 February 2052 at 09:08 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.554°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.455° at the point of next southern standstill on 24 February 2052 at 14:50 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 1 March 2052 at 07:36 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.
