Waning
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 89% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 89% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 1 March 2067 at 04:42.
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 ∠22° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1861"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1861" and ∠1935".
Worm Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2067 after 26 days on 30 March 2067 at 20:08.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 8 March 2067 at 16:16
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 15 March 2067 at 08:29
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 22 March 2067 at 18:44
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 30 March 2067 at 20:08
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 830 / 1783
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 830 of Meeus index or 1783 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.44 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 31 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2067. It is 24 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 2 hours and 13 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 56 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠18.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠18.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠37.6°.
Moon after apogee
7 days after point of apogee on 25 February 2067 at 01:39 in ♋ Cancer. 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 2067 at 00:40 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 385 161 km
The Moon is 385 161 km (239 328 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 617 km (225 941 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after descending node on 23 February 2067 at 01:40 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 9 March 2067 at 05:33 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
22 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, 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 22 February 2067 at 07:51 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.698°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.547° at the point of next southern standstill on 8 March 2067 at 17:24 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 15 March 2067 at 08:29 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.
