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Moon phase for
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Waning Gibbous 67% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 67% and getting smaller. The 20 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 13 February 2063 at 05:48.
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 ∠1875"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1875" and ∠1941".
Snow Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2063 after 24 days on 14 March 2063 at 16:14.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 20 February 2063 at 03:07
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 28 February 2063 at 07:38
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 8 March 2063 at 01:06
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 14 March 2063 at 16:14
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 780 / 1733
The Moon is 20 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 780 of Meeus index or 1733 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.8 days
Length of current 780 lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 15 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2063. It is 2 hours and 3 minutes longer than next lunation 781 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 6 hours and 31 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 32 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠179.8°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠179.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠204.9°. 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 after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 12 February 2063 at 19:32 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 25 February 2063 at 16:30 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 382 269 km
Moon is 382 269 km (237 531 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 7 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 312 km (252 471 mi).
Moon after descending node
4 days after its descending node on 14 February 2063 at 11:10 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 10 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 28 February 2063 at 14:15 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
17 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
9 days after previous North standstill on 9 February 2063 at 10:17 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.472°. Next 3 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.506° in the next southern standstill on 22 February 2063 at 05:09 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 9 days
After 9 days on 28 February 2063 at 07:38 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.