Waning
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 71% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 71% 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 15 February 2079 at 23:45.
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 ∠8° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1778"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1778" and ∠1940".
Snow Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2079 after 24 days on 17 March 2079 at 13:45.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 23 February 2079 at 19:23
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 3 March 2079 at 13:49
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 10 March 2079 at 10:37
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 17 March 2079 at 13:45
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 978 / 1931
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 978 of Meeus index or 1931 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 13 minutes. It is 2 hours and 32 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 29 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 34 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠261.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠261.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠296.6°.
Moon before perigee
10 days after point of perigee on 11 February 2079 at 08:13 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 23 February 2079 at 18:10 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 403 083 km
The Moon is 403 083 km (250 464 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 236 km (251 181 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♏ Scorpio at 02:05 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 13 days later on 7 March 2079 at 01:24 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 12 February 2079 at 07:40 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.715°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.818° at the point of next southern standstill on 26 February 2079 at 08:11 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 3 March 2079 at 13:49 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.
