Waning
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 69% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 69% and getting smaller. The 20 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 25 December 2034 at 08:54.
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 ∠17° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1855"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1855" and ∠1951".
Cold Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2035 after 24 days on 23 January 2035 at 20:16.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 1 January 2035 at 10:01
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 9 January 2035 at 15:03
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 17 January 2035 at 04:45
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 23 January 2035 at 20:16
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 432 / 1385
The Moon is 20 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 432 of Meeus index or 1385 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.78 days
Length of current 432 lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes. It is 1 hour and 30 minutes longer than next lunation 433 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 6 hours and 5 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 58 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠192.5°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠192.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠220.5°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after perigee
6 days after point of perigee on 24 December 2034 at 10:34 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 5 January 2035 at 18:52 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 386 423 km
Moon is 386 423 km (240 112 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 6 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 976 km (252 262 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♍ Virgo at 13:10 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from South to North. Moon will follow the northern part of its orbit for the next 14 days to meet descending node on 14 January 2035 at 03:01 in ♓ Pisces.
New draconic month
At 13:10 on this date the Moon is completing its previous draconic month and is entering the new one.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days after previous North standstill on 25 December 2034 at 08:20 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠18.552°. Next 8 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-18.547° in the next southern standstill on 8 January 2035 at 08:12 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 10 days
After 10 days on 9 January 2035 at 15:03 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.