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 ♌ Leo.
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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 10 January 2020 at 19:21.
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 ♌ Leo
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1959"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1959" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2020 after 26 days on 9 February 2020 at 07:33.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 17 January 2020 at 12:58
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 24 January 2020 at 21:42
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 2 February 2020 at 01:42
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 9 February 2020 at 07:33
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 247 / 1200
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 247 of Meeus index or 1200 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.69 days
Length of current 247 lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 29 minutes. It is 1 hour and 21 minutes shorter than next lunation 248 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 45 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 18 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠82.6°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠82.6°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠120.5°. 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 in perigee
Moon is reaching point of perigee on this date at 20:20, this is 11 days after last apogee on 2 January 2020 at 01:30 in ♓ Pisces. Lunar orbit is starting to get wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth for 16 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next apogee on 29 January 2020 at 21:28 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 365 964 km
This perigee Moon is 365 964 km (227 399 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 456 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 4 392 km farther than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
3 days after its ascending node on 9 January 2020 at 23:29 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 9 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 22 January 2020 at 20:31 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
3 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
3 days after previous North standstill on 10 January 2020 at 06:03 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠23.223°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-23.225° in the next southern standstill on 23 January 2020 at 03:37 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 11 days
After 11 days on 24 January 2020 at 21:42 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.