Waning
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 95% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 95% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♌ Leo.
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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 22 January 2008 at 13:35.
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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1859"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1859" and ∠1949".
Wolf Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2008 after 27 days on 21 February 2008 at 03:31.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 30 January 2008 at 05:03
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 7 February 2008 at 03:44
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 14 February 2008 at 03:34
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 21 February 2008 at 03:31
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 99 / 1052
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 99 of Meeus index or 1052 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.67 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 7 minutes. It is 2 hours and 37 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 23 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 40 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠242.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠242.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠280°.
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 19 January 2008 at 08:39 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 31 January 2008 at 04:26 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 385 614 km
The Moon is 385 614 km (239 609 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 532 km (251 365 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♌ Leo at 10:49 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 14 days later on 7 February 2008 at 21:39 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 19 January 2008 at 23:29 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.985°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.025° at the point of next southern standstill on 2 February 2008 at 23:33 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 13 days
In 13 days on 7 February 2008 at 03:44 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.
