Waning
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 83% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 83% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 15 February 2098 at 21:00.
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 ♎ Libra
Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1884"
Lunar disc appears visually 3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1884" and ∠1940".
Snow Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2098 after 25 days on 17 March 2098 at 07:43.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 22 February 2098 at 23:26
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 3 March 2098 at 04:02
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 10 March 2098 at 16:01
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 17 March 2098 at 07:43
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 1213 / 2166
The Moon is 18 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1213 of Meeus index or 2166 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.76 days
Length of current 1213 lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 8 minutes. It is 2 hours and 23 minutes longer than next lunation 1214 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 24 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 39 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠197°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠197°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠225.5°. 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 after perigee
4 days after point of perigee on 14 February 2098 at 18:30 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 27 February 2098 at 00:05 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 380 480 km
Moon is 380 480 km (236 419 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 7 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 848 km (252 182 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♎ Libra at 21:18 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 6 March 2098 at 10:58 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
12 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the middle to the last part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
7 days after previous North standstill on 12 February 2098 at 08:06 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.051°. Next 5 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.136° in the next southern standstill on 25 February 2098 at 10:08 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 11 days
After 11 days on 3 March 2098 at 04:02 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.