Waning
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 88% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 88% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♌ Leo.
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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 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 ♌ Leo
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1965"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1965" and ∠1951".
Cold Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2002 after 26 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
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 24 / 977
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 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 at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 07:13. It is 11 days after previous apogee on 21 December 2001 at 13:02 in ♓ Pisces. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 15 days, until point of next apogee on 18 January 2002 at 08:50 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 365 412 km
This perigee Moon is 365 412 km (227 056 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 904 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 4 944 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
3 days after ascending node on 29 December 2001 at 14:51 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 11 January 2002 at 11:56 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
3 days 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
2 days 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 10 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 11 days
In 11 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.
