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Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 63% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 63% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 6 days on 16 December 2032 at 20:49.
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 ∠18° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1951".
Cold Moon before 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2033 after 23 days on 15 January 2033 at 13:07.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 24 December 2032 at 20:39
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 1 January 2033 at 10:17
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 8 January 2033 at 03:34
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 15 January 2033 at 13:07
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 407 / 1360
The Moon is 21 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 407 of Meeus index or 1360 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.56 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 24 minutes. It is 1 hour and 41 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 40 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 23 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠286.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠286.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠315.8°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 11:34. It is 14 days after previous perigee on 8 December 2032 at 19:18 in ♒ Aquarius. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 11 days, until point of next perigee on 4 January 2033 at 05:24 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 404 516 km
This apogee Moon is 404 516 km (251 355 mi) away from Earth. It is 892 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 193 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
10 days after descending node on 12 December 2032 at 17:34 in ♈ Aries. 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 26 December 2032 at 21:36 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
23 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 16 December 2032 at 16:10 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.141°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.115° at the point of next southern standstill on 31 December 2032 at 03:26 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 1 January 2033 at 10:17 in ♑ Capricorn 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.
