Waning
Gibbous ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 84% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 84% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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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 19 January 2030 at 15:54.
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 ∠21° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1928"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1928" and ∠1949".
Wolf Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2030 after 25 days on 18 February 2030 at 06:20.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 26 January 2030 at 18:14
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 2 February 2030 at 16:07
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 10 February 2030 at 11:49
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 18 February 2030 at 06:20
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 371 / 1324
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 371 of Meeus index or 1324 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.55 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 18 minutes. It is 1 hour and 9 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 34 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 29 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠39.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠39.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠67.6°.
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of apogee on 13 January 2030 at 08:51 in ♉ Taurus. 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 28 January 2030 at 16:03 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 371 816 km
The Moon is 371 816 km (231 036 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 541 km (229 622 mi).
Moon after descending node
6 days after descending node on 16 January 2030 at 22:41 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 30 January 2030 at 03:28 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
20 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 16 January 2030 at 08:26 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.549°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.491° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 January 2030 at 16:28 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 2 February 2030 at 16:07 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.
