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Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 58% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 58% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Moon phase and lunation details
7 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 7 days on 6 February 2069 at 05:29.
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 in ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1781"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1781" and ∠1943".
Snow Moon before 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2069 after 22 days on 7 March 2069 at 22:35.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 14 February 2069 at 09:27
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 21 February 2069 at 15:17
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 28 February 2069 at 06:54
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 7 March 2069 at 22:35
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 854 / 1807
The Moon is 21 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 854 of Meeus index or 1807 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.49 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 41 minutes. It is 1 hour and 45 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 3 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 6 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠310.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠310.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠332.8°.
Moon after apogee
2 days after point of apogee on 11 February 2069 at 08:23 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 February 2069 at 06:27 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 402 551 km
The Moon is 402 551 km (250 134 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 058 km (224 351 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♏ Scorpio at 15:55 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 26 February 2069 at 13:32 in ♉ Taurus.
New draconic month
At 15:55 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 1 February 2069 at 18:36 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.473°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.335° at the point of next southern standstill on 16 February 2069 at 07:37 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 21 February 2069 at 15:17 in ♒ Aquarius 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.
