Waning
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 81% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 81% and getting smaller. The 19 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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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 25 February 2070 at 02:31.
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 ∠2° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1779"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1779" and ∠1936".
Snow Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2070 after 25 days on 26 March 2070 at 17:31.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 5 March 2070 at 02:11
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 12 March 2070 at 15:52
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 19 March 2070 at 09:53
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 26 March 2070 at 17:31
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 867 / 1820
The Moon is 19 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 867 of Meeus index or 1820 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.54 days
Length of current 867 lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 1 minute. It is 2 hours and 22 minutes longer than next lunation 868 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 16 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 6 hours and 47 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠282°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠282°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠312°. 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 before apogee
11 days after point of perigee on 17 February 2070 at 15:55 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 2 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 3 March 2070 at 22:21 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 402 983 km
Moon is 402 983 km (250 402 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 2 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 337 km (251 243 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♏ Scorpio at 00:18 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from South to North. Moon will follow the northern part of its orbit for the next 13 days to meet descending node on 14 March 2070 at 23:47 in ♈ Aries.
New draconic month
At 00:18 on this date the Moon is completing its previous draconic month and is entering the new one.
Moon before southern standstill
9 days after previous North standstill on 19 February 2070 at 18:41 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠18.990°. Next 4 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-18.883° in the next southern standstill on 5 March 2070 at 19:21 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 11 days
After 11 days on 12 March 2070 at 15:52 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.