Waning
Gibbous ♌ Leo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 99% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 30 December 2001 at 10:41.
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 ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1935"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1935" and ∠1951".
Cold Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2002 after 28 days on 28 January 2002 at 22:50.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 6 January 2002 at 03:55
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 13 January 2002 at 13:29
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 21 January 2002 at 17:47
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 28 January 2002 at 22:50
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.
Lunation 24 / 977
The Moon is 16 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 24 of Meeus index or 977 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.7 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 41 minutes. It is 1 hour and 31 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the 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 57 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 6 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠86.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠86.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠123.9°.
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of apogee on 21 December 2001 at 13:02 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 2 January 2002 at 07:13 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 370 405 km
The Moon is 370 405 km (230 159 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 412 km (227 056 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 29 December 2001 at 14:51 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 11 January 2002 at 11:56 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 30 December 2001 at 15:40 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.244°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.240° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 January 2002 at 15:26 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 13 days
In 13 days on 13 January 2002 at 13:29 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.
