Waning
Gibbous ♌ Leo
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 ♋ Cancer.
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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 17 December 2013 at 09:28.
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 ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠21° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1950".
Cold Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2014 after 27 days on 16 January 2014 at 04:52.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 25 December 2013 at 13:48
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 1 January 2014 at 11:14
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 8 January 2014 at 03:39
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 16 January 2014 at 04:52
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 172 / 1125
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 172 of Meeus index or 1125 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 52 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2013. It is 28 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 1 hour and 52 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 17 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠336.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠336.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠353°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 23:49. It is 15 days after previous perigee on 4 December 2013 at 10:15 in ♑ Capricorn. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 13 days, until point of next perigee on 1 January 2014 at 21:00 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 406 269 km
This apogee Moon is 406 269 km (252 444 mi) away from Earth. It is 861 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 440 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
6 days after descending node on 13 December 2013 at 10:10 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 28 December 2013 at 00:21 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
18 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 17 December 2013 at 01:00 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.570°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.537° at the point of next southern standstill on 31 December 2013 at 04:49 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 1 January 2014 at 11:14 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.
