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Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 62% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 62% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 6 days on 17 January 2022 at 23:49.
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 ∠21° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1921"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1921" and ∠1949".
Wolf Moon before 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2022 after 23 days on 16 February 2022 at 16:57.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 25 January 2022 at 13:41
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 1 February 2022 at 05:46
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 8 February 2022 at 13:50
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 16 February 2022 at 16:57
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 272 / 1225
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 272 of Meeus index or 1225 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.47 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 13 minutes. It is 36 minutes shorter 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 1 hour and 32 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 38 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠13.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠13.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠32°.
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of apogee on 14 January 2022 at 09:27 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 30 January 2022 at 07:09 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 373 135 km
The Moon is 373 135 km (231 855 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 250 km (225 092 mi).
Moon before descending node
11 days after ascending node on 13 January 2022 at 04:19 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 27 January 2022 at 06:14 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
11 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 16 January 2022 at 10:16 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.310°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.369° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 January 2022 at 23:26 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 1 February 2022 at 05:46 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.
