Waning
Gibbous ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 85% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 85% and getting smaller. The 18 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 16 February 2060 at 09:56.
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 ∠16° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1940".
Snow Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2060 after 25 days on 17 March 2060 at 03:41.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 24 February 2060 at 15:06
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 2 March 2060 at 16:11
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 9 March 2060 at 07:52
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 17 March 2060 at 03:41
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 743 / 1696
The Moon is 18 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 743 of Meeus index or 1696 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 49 minutes. It is 1 hour and 23 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 55 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 14 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠323.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠323.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠342.5°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 10:06. It is 15 days after previous perigee on 4 February 2060 at 10:39 in ♓ Pisces. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 12 days, until point of next perigee on 3 March 2060 at 16:59 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 405 550 km
This apogee Moon is 405 550 km (251 997 mi) away from Earth. It is 142 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 159 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
12 days after ascending node on 8 February 2060 at 08:15 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 22 February 2060 at 12:39 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 12 February 2060 at 09:28 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.319°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.445° at the point of next southern standstill on 27 February 2060 at 00:51 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 2 March 2060 at 16:11 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.
