Waning
Gibbous ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 94% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 94% and getting smaller. The 17 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 7 February 2077 at 23:08.
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 ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1769"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1944".
Snow Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2077 after 27 days on 9 March 2077 at 17:42.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 16 February 2077 at 02:58
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 22 February 2077 at 23:07
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 1 March 2077 at 16:11
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 9 March 2077 at 17:42
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 953 / 1906
The Moon is 17 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 953 of Meeus index or 1906 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
Length of current 953 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 21 minutes. It is 1 hour and 3 minutes longer than next lunation 954 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 23 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 46 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠339.5°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠339.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠355.5°. 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 in apogee
Moon is reaching point of apogee on this date at 02:41, this is 15 days after last perigee on 25 January 2077 at 18:01 in ♒ Aquarius. Lunar orbit is starting to get closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth for 12 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next perigee on 23 February 2077 at 05:20 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 406 305 km
This apogee Moon is 406 305 km (252 466 mi) away from Earth. It is 897 km farther than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 404 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
7 days after its ascending node on 2 February 2077 at 17:16 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 6 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 17 February 2077 at 08:19 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
7 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days after previous North standstill on 4 February 2077 at 17:05 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠25.148°. Next 8 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-25.259° in the next southern standstill on 19 February 2077 at 06:40 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 12 days
After 12 days on 22 February 2077 at 23:07 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.