Waning
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 78% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 78% and getting smaller. The 19 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 27 February 2059 at 10:06.
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 ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠10° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1832"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1832" and ∠1935".
Snow Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2059 after 24 days on 29 March 2059 at 03:47.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 7 March 2059 at 08:47
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 14 March 2059 at 00:05
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 20 March 2059 at 23:30
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 29 March 2059 at 03:47
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 731 / 1684
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 731 of Meeus index or 1684 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.4 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 38 minutes. It is 15 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the 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 3 hours and 6 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 3 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠357°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠357°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠12.4°.
Moon after apogee
5 days after point of apogee on 26 February 2059 at 13:16 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 13 March 2059 at 06:38 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 391 262 km
The Moon is 391 262 km (243 119 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 773 km (222 310 mi).
Moon before descending node
13 days after ascending node on 19 February 2059 at 09:15 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 6 March 2059 at 00:53 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
10 days since the previous standstill on 22 February 2059 at 09:40 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.179°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.323° at the point of next southern standstill on 8 March 2059 at 23:34 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 9 days
In 9 days on 14 March 2059 at 00:05 in ♈ Aries 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.
