Waning Gibbous on

Moon phase on 23 January 2027 Saturday is Waning Gibbous, 16 days old Moon is in Leo.

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Lunar calendar 2027 | January 2027

Waning Gibbous phase
Waning Gibbous phase
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.

Waning Gibbous 99% illuminated

Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♌ Leo.

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Moon phase and lunation details

1 day after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 22 January 2027 at 12:17.

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 ∠17° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1957"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1957" and ∠1949".

Wolf Moon before 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2027 after 28 days on 20 February 2027 at 23:23.

Upcoming main Moon phases

Moderate tide

There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.

Lunation 334 / 1287

The Moon is 16 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 334 of Meeus index or 1287 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.81 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 32 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2027. It is 1 hour and 59 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 6 hours and 48 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 15 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit position on

True anomaly ∠184.3°

At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠184.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠210.4°.

Moon after perigee

1 day after point of perigee on 21 January 2027 at 21:49 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 3 February 2027 at 13:31 in ♑ Capricorn.

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Distance to Moon 366 197 km

The Moon is 366 197 km (227 544 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 189 km (252 394 mi).

Moon in descending node

Moon is in descending node in ♌ Leo at 17:26 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 14 days later on 6 February 2027 at 21:44 in ♒ Aquarius.

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Draconic month

12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.

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Moon after northern standstill

3 days since the previous standstill on 19 January 2027 at 23:16 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.682°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.706° at the point of next southern standstill on 2 February 2027 at 02:38 in ♐ Sagittarius.

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Syzygy in 14 days

In 14 days on 6 February 2027 at 15:56 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.

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