Waning
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 96% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 96% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 25 January 2005 at 10:32.
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 is entering ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1791"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1791" and ∠1948".
Wolf Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2005 after 27 days on 24 February 2005 at 04:54.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 2 February 2005 at 07:27
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 8 February 2005 at 22:28
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 16 February 2005 at 00:16
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 24 February 2005 at 04:54
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 62 / 1015
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 62 of Meeus index or 1015 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 25 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2005. It is 17 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 19 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 50 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠1.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠1.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠17.1°.
Moon after apogee
3 days after point of apogee on 23 January 2005 at 18:54 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 7 February 2005 at 22:09 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 400 169 km
The Moon is 400 169 km (248 653 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 564 km (222 801 mi).
Moon before descending node
10 days after ascending node on 17 January 2005 at 07:32 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 31 January 2005 at 22:49 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
10 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 22 January 2005 at 19:22 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.973°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.071° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 February 2005 at 21:10 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 8 February 2005 at 22:28 in ♒ Aquarius 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.
