Waning
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 83% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 83% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♌ Leo.
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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 24 December 2026 at 01:28.
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 passing about ∠24° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1947"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1947" and ∠1951".
Cold Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2027 after 26 days on 22 January 2027 at 12:17.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 30 December 2026 at 18:59
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 7 January 2027 at 20:24
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 15 January 2027 at 20:34
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 22 January 2027 at 12:17
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 333 / 1286
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 333 of Meeus index or 1286 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.81 days
Length of current 333 lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 33 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2026. It is 1 minute longer than next lunation 334 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 6 hours and 48 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 14 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠159.4°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠159.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠184.3°. 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 perigee
3 days after point of perigee on 24 December 2026 at 08:30 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 7 January 2027 at 08:10 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 368 093 km
Moon is 368 093 km (228 722 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 10 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 610 km (252 656 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♌ Leo at 07:55 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from North to South. Moon will follow the southern part of its orbit for the next 14 days to meet ascending node on 10 January 2027 at 15:58 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
12 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is moving from the middle to the last part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
3 days after previous North standstill on 23 December 2026 at 12:33 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠27.620°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-27.636° in the next southern standstill on 5 January 2027 at 20:46 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 11 days
After 11 days on 7 January 2027 at 20:24 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.