Waning
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 71% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 71% and getting smaller. The 20 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 15 December 2005 at 16:16.
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 ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1769"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1951".
Cold Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2006 after 23 days on 14 January 2006 at 09:48.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 23 December 2005 at 19:36
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 31 December 2005 at 03:12
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 6 January 2006 at 18:57
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 14 January 2006 at 09:48
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 73 / 1026
The Moon is 20 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 73 of Meeus index or 1026 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.51 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 11 minutes. It is 1 hour and 8 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 33 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 36 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠306.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠306.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠329.9°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 02:49. It is 15 days after previous perigee on 5 December 2005 at 04:32 in ♒ Aquarius. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 11 days, until point of next perigee on 1 January 2006 at 22:50 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 405 014 km
This apogee Moon is 405 014 km (251 664 mi) away from Earth. It is 394 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 695 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
11 days after ascending node on 10 December 2005 at 04:50 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 24 December 2005 at 10:43 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
11 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
5 days since the previous standstill on 16 December 2005 at 07:14 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.378°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.387° at the point of next southern standstill on 30 December 2005 at 13:57 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 9 days
In 9 days on 31 December 2005 at 03:12 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.
