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

Waning Gibbous in Leo

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 ♌ Leo

Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 4 January 2053 at 17:46.

Wolf Moon before 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2053 after 27 days on 3 February 2053 at 04:57.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1937"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1937" and ∠1951".

Lunation 655 / 1608

The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 655 of Meeus index or 1608 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.79 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 57 minutes and it is 1 hour and 38 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 6 hours and 13 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 50 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠190.2°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠190.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠217.6°.

Moon after perigee

2 days since point of perigee on 3 January 2053 at 21:39 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 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 16 January 2053 at 07:55 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 370 115 km

The Moon is 370 115 km (229 979 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 076 km (252 324 mi).

Moon before ascending node

9 days after descending node on 28 December 2052 at 11:06 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 9 January 2053 at 21:36 in ♍ Virgo.

Moon after northern standstill

2 days since the last northern standstill on 3 January 2053 at 18:58 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.398° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.367° at the point of next southern standstill on 17 January 2053 at 11:59 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

23 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 13 days

In 13 days on 19 January 2053 at 23:12 in ♑ Capricorn 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