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Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 59% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 59% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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Moon phase and lunation details
7 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 7 days on 5 January 2015 at 04:53.
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 ♎ Libra
Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1788"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1788" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon before 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2015 after 22 days on 3 February 2015 at 23:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 13 January 2015 at 09:47
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 20 January 2015 at 13:14
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 27 January 2015 at 04:48
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 3 February 2015 at 23:09
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 185 / 1138
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 185 of Meeus index or 1138 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.48 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 38 minutes. It is 1 hour and 4 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 6 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 3 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠318°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠318°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠338.3°.
Moon after apogee
2 days after point of apogee on 9 January 2015 at 18:17 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 January 2015 at 20:06 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 400 918 km
The Moon is 400 918 km (249 119 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 643 km (223 472 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♎ Libra at 15:33 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 12 days later on 25 January 2015 at 10:23 in ♈ Aries.
New draconic month
At 15:33 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before southern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 3 January 2015 at 17:53 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.650°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.577° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 January 2015 at 06:17 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 20 January 2015 at 13:14 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.
