Waning
Gibbous ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 86% illuminated
Waning 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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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 27 January 2032 at 12:52.
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 ∠24° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1797"
Lunar disc appears visually 8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1797" and ∠1947".
Wolf Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2032 after 25 days on 26 February 2032 at 07:43.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 4 February 2032 at 13:49
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 11 February 2032 at 06:24
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 18 February 2032 at 03:29
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 26 February 2032 at 07:43
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 396 / 1349
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.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 18 minutes. It is 18 minutes longer 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 2 hours and 27 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 43 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠351.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠351.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠6.9°.
Moon after apogee
3 days after point of apogee on 27 January 2032 at 16:13 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 February 2032 at 20:46 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 398 833 km
The Moon is 398 833 km (247 823 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 948 km (221 797 mi).
Moon before ascending node
10 days after descending node on 20 January 2032 at 20:00 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 4 February 2032 at 11:35 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
23 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, 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 23 January 2032 at 14:33 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.240°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.110° at the point of next southern standstill on 7 February 2032 at 03:44 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 11 February 2032 at 06:24 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.
