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Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 60% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 60% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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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 31 December 2009 at 19:13.
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 ♎ Libra
Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1933"
Lunar disc appears visually 1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1933" and ∠1951".
Cold Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2010 after 23 days on 30 January 2010 at 06:18.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 7 January 2010 at 10:40
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 15 January 2010 at 07:11
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 23 January 2010 at 10:53
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 30 January 2010 at 06:18
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 123 / 1076
The Moon is 21 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 123 of Meeus index or 1076 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.8 days
Length of current 123 lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 9 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2010. It is 31 minutes shorter than next lunation 124 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 6 hours and 25 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 38 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠135.6°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠135.6°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠164.3°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon after perigee
4 days after point of perigee on 1 January 2010 at 20:36 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 17 January 2010 at 01:40 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 370 877 km
Moon is 370 877 km (230 452 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 10 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 434 km (252 546 mi).
Moon after descending node
4 days after its descending node on 1 January 2010 at 12:30 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 8 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 14 January 2010 at 23:18 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
18 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
7 days after previous North standstill on 30 December 2009 at 10:09 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠25.787°. Next 5 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-25.796° in the next southern standstill on 12 January 2010 at 08:33 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 8 days
After 8 days on 15 January 2010 at 07:11 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.