Waning
Gibbous ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 99% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 23 February 2081 at 14:27.
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 ∠19° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1965"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1965" and ∠1938".
Snow Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2081 after 28 days on 25 March 2081 at 00:29.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 2 March 2081 at 11:06
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 10 March 2081 at 15:16
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 18 March 2081 at 09:27
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 25 March 2081 at 00:29
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 1003 / 1956
The Moon is 16 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1003 of Meeus index or 1956 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.79 days
Length of current 1003 lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 1 minute. It is 2 hours and 2 minutes longer than next lunation 1004 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 6 hours and 16 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 47 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠177.5°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠177.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠202.2°. 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 after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 23 February 2081 at 06:18 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 11 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 8 March 2081 at 06:10 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 364 821 km
Moon is 364 821 km (226 689 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 11 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 362 km (252 502 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♍ Virgo at 20:03 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from North to South. Moon will follow the southern part of its orbit for the next 14 days to meet ascending node on 10 March 2081 at 22:30 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
12 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the middle to the last part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days after previous North standstill on 19 February 2081 at 03:19 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.630°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.668° in the next southern standstill on 3 March 2081 at 19:02 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 14 days
After 14 days on 10 March 2081 at 15:16 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.