Waning
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 89% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 89% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 12 January 2017 at 11:34.
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 ∠1858"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1858" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2017 after 26 days on 11 February 2017 at 00:33.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 19 January 2017 at 22:14
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 28 January 2017 at 00:07
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 4 February 2017 at 04:19
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 11 February 2017 at 00:33
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 210 / 1163
The Moon is 18 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 210 of Meeus index or 1163 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.72 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 14 minutes. It is 2 hours and 23 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 4 hours and 30 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 33 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠223.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠223.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠259.5°.
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 10 January 2017 at 06:07 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 22 January 2017 at 00:14 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 385 853 km
The Moon is 385 853 km (239 758 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 913 km (251 601 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♍ Virgo at 10:45 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 29 January 2017 at 22:21 in ♒ Aquarius.
New draconic month
At 10:45 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after northern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 11 January 2017 at 09:32 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.932°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.900° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 January 2017 at 11:59 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 28 January 2017 at 00:07 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.
