Waning Gibbous Moon
Waning Gibbous MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waning Gibbous in Virgo

Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 96% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

The 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 phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♍ Virgo

Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 17 February 2087 at 13:34.

Snow Moon before 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2087 after 27 days on 19 March 2087 at 06:09.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1787"

Lunar disc appears visually 8.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1787" and ∠1941".

Lunation 1077 / 2030

The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1077 of Meeus index or 2030 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.48 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 35 minutes and it is 1 hour and 54 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit 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 9 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠308.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠308.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠330.8°.

Moon before apogee

12 days since point of perigee on 6 February 2087 at 21:41 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 22 February 2087 at 20:55 in ♎ Libra.

Distance to Moon 401 014 km

The Moon is 401 014 km (249 179 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 929 km (251 611 mi).

Moon before ascending node

8 days after descending node on 10 February 2087 at 21:48 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 25 February 2087 at 00:02 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Moon before southern standstill

7 days since the last northern standstill on 12 February 2087 at 05:55 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.361° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.215° at the point of next southern standstill on 26 February 2087 at 16:05 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

21 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 13 days

In 13 days on 4 March 2087 at 23:45 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov