Waning
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 80% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 80% and getting smaller. The 19 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 8 January 2031 at 18:26.
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 ∠16° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1852"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1852" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2031 after 25 days on 7 February 2031 at 12:46.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 16 January 2031 at 12:47
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 23 January 2031 at 04:31
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 30 January 2031 at 07:43
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 7 February 2031 at 12:46
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 383 / 1336
The Moon is 19 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 383 of Meeus index or 1336 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.46 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 59 minutes. It is 19 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 45 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 24 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠5.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠5.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠21.6°.
Moon after apogee
7 days after point of apogee on 6 January 2031 at 11:00 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 January 2031 at 21:41 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 387 081 km
The Moon is 387 081 km (240 521 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 637 km (223 468 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after descending node on 5 January 2031 at 06:37 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 19 January 2031 at 08:51 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
21 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 6 January 2031 at 05:22 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.889°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.824° at the point of next southern standstill on 20 January 2031 at 05:10 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 9 days
In 9 days on 23 January 2031 at 04:31 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.
