Waning
Gibbous ♎ Libra
Moon phase on 31 January 2032 Saturday is Waning Gibbous, 18 days old Moon is in Virgo.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 86% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 27 January 2032 at 12:52.
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 is passing about ∠24° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1797" and ∠1947".
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2032 after 25 days on 26 February 2032 at 07:43.
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.
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 396 of Meeus index or 1349 from Brown series.
Length of current 396 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 18 minutes. It is 18 minutes longer than next lunation 397 length.
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 27 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 43 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠351.6°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠6.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
3 days after point of apogee on 27 January 2032 at 16:13 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 10 February 2032 at 20:46 in ♒ Aquarius.
Moon is 398 833 km (247 823 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 10 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 356 948 km (221 797 mi).
10 days after its descending node on 20 January 2032 at 20:00 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 4 February 2032 at 11:35 in ♏ Scorpio.
23 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
7 days after previous North standstill on 23 January 2032 at 14:33 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠20.240°. Next 6 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-20.110° in the next southern standstill on 7 February 2032 at 03:44 in ♐ Sagittarius.
After 10 days on 11 February 2032 at 06:24 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.