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Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 58% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 58% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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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 8 December 2022 at 04:08.
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 ∠14° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1799"
Lunar disc appears visually 8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1799" and ∠1950".
Cold Moon before 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2023 after 22 days on 6 January 2023 at 23:08.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 16 December 2022 at 08:56
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 23 December 2022 at 10:17
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 30 December 2022 at 01:21
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 6 January 2023 at 23:08
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 283 / 1236
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 283 of Meeus index or 1236 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.47 days
Length of current 283 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 20 minutes. It is 44 minutes longer than next lunation 284 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 24 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 45 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠325.5°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠325.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠344.3°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after apogee
3 days after point of apogee on 12 December 2022 at 00:30 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 8 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 24 December 2022 at 08:32 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 398 425 km
Moon is 398 425 km (247 570 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 8 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 358 270 km (222 619 mi).
Moon before descending node
9 days after its ascending node on 5 December 2022 at 12:39 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 4 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 20 December 2022 at 01:36 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
9 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days after previous North standstill on 9 December 2022 at 21:22 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠27.432°. Next 8 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-27.418° in the next southern standstill on 23 December 2022 at 18:18 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 7 days
After 7 days on 23 December 2022 at 10:17 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.