Waning
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 72% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 72% 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 10 February 2066 at 08:29.
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 is entering ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1945"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1945" and ∠1942".
Snow Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2066 after 24 days on 11 March 2066 at 22:48.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 17 February 2066 at 12:14
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 24 February 2066 at 08:50
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 4 March 2066 at 02:48
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 11 March 2066 at 22:48
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 817 / 1770
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 817 of Meeus index or 1770 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.53 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 36 minutes. It is 47 minutes shorter 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 8 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 1 minute longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠35.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠35.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠61.6°.
Moon before apogee
11 days after point of apogee on 4 February 2066 at 09:58 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 20 February 2066 at 01:15 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 368 589 km
The Moon is 368 589 km (229 031 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 665 km (229 078 mi).
Moon before ascending node
7 days after descending node on 7 February 2066 at 15:03 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 20 February 2066 at 21:32 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
21 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
10 days since the previous standstill on 5 February 2066 at 06:59 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.448°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.369° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 February 2066 at 23:33 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 24 February 2066 at 08:50 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.
