It's one of the four bright stars often closely visited by the moon. Sunday, Feb. 16: A Waning Gibbous Moon With Spica Here's a super-close conjunction that you don't want to miss. You'll need to ...

The Moon reaches a Waning Gibbous (Disseminating Moon) when the light shed on the Moon disseminates with time. The Waning Gibbous proceeds to the third quarter of the Moon phase. The third quarter of ...

Around midnight tonight in the east, a 55%-lit waning gibbous moon will be just a tenth of a degree from Spica, the brightest star in the constellation of Virgo and about 250 light-years distant.