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

Waning Gibbous in Leo

Waning Gibbous on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 87% and getting smaller. Lunar cycle is 18 days old.

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.

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♌ Leo

Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.

3 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 4 January 2064 at 09:31.

Wolf Moon before 3 days

Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2064 after 26 days on 2 February 2064 at 21:37.

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 ∠1967"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1967" and ∠1951".

Lunation 791 / 1744

The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 791 of Meeus index or 1744 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.69 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 33 minutes and it is 1 hour and 53 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).

Lunation length longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 49 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 14 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠88.4°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠88.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠125.9°.

Moon at perigee

Moon is at perigee at 03:30 about 11 days since last apogee on 26 December 2063 at 09:48 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 23 January 2064 at 05:31 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 365 135 km

This perigee Moon is 365 135 km (226 884 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 627 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 5 221 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.

Moon in descending node

Moon is in descending node in ♌ Leo at 06:27 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 20 January 2064 at 17:11 in ♒ Aquarius.

Moon after northern standstill

4 days since the last northern standstill on 3 January 2064 at 00:55 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.781° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.815° at the point of next southern standstill on 15 January 2064 at 20:47 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 11 days

In 11 days on 18 January 2064 at 12:37 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