Waning
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 90% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 90% and getting smaller. The 17 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
Moon phases for next 7 days
Monday Mon
Tuesday Tue
Wednesday Wed
Thursday Thu
Friday Fri
Saturday Sat
Sunday Sun
Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 16 January 2014 at 04:52.
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 ∠1791"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1791" and ∠1950".
Wolf Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2014 after 26 days on 14 February 2014 at 23:53.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 24 January 2014 at 05:19
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 30 January 2014 at 21:39
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 6 February 2014 at 19:22
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 14 February 2014 at 23:53
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 173 / 1126
The Moon is 17 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 173 of Meeus index or 1126 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 24 minutes. It is 3 minutes longer 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 20 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 49 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠353°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠353°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠8.3°.
Moon after apogee
3 days after point of apogee on 16 January 2014 at 01:53 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 30 January 2014 at 09:58 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 400 256 km
The Moon is 400 256 km (248 708 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 080 km (221 879 mi).
Moon before ascending node
10 days after descending node on 9 January 2014 at 11:26 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 24 January 2014 at 02:55 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
22 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
6 days since the previous standstill on 13 January 2014 at 08:14 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.501°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.396° at the point of next southern standstill on 27 January 2014 at 16:31 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 30 January 2014 at 21:39 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.
