Waning
Gibbous ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 93% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 93% and getting smaller. The 17 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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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 3 February 2053 at 04:57.
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 ∠17° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1883"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1883" and ∠1946".
Snow Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2053 after 27 days on 4 March 2053 at 17:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 10 February 2053 at 13:49
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 18 February 2053 at 16:31
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 25 February 2053 at 22:09
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 4 March 2053 at 17:09
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 656 / 1609
The Moon is 17 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 656 of Meeus index or 1609 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.72 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 19 minutes. It is 2 hours and 39 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 4 hours and 35 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 28 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠217.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠217.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠251.9°.
Moon after perigee
4 days after point of perigee on 1 February 2053 at 05:49 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 13 February 2053 at 01:22 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 380 556 km
The Moon is 380 556 km (236 467 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 090 km (251 711 mi).
Moon before ascending node
12 days after descending node on 24 January 2053 at 11:46 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 6 February 2053 at 03:39 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
26 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 31 January 2053 at 05:58 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.289°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.230° at the point of next southern standstill on 13 February 2053 at 20:10 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 13 days
In 13 days on 18 February 2053 at 16:31 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.
