Waning
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 94% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 94% and getting smaller. The 17 days old Moon is in ♌ Leo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 13 January 2036 at 11:16.
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 ♌ Leo
Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1957"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1957" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2036 after 27 days on 11 February 2036 at 22:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 20 January 2036 at 06:46
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 28 January 2036 at 10:17
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 5 February 2036 at 07:01
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 11 February 2036 at 22:09
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 445 / 1398
The Moon is 17 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 445 of Meeus index or 1398 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.82 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 46 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2036. It is 1 hour and 4 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 7 hours and 2 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 minute shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠171°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠171°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠195.6°.
Moon after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 13 January 2036 at 08:47 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 26 January 2036 at 16:05 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 366 351 km
The Moon is 366 351 km (227 640 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 498 km (252 586 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♌ Leo at 16:39 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 29 January 2036 at 22:45 in ♒ Aquarius.
New draconic month
At 16:39 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after northern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 12 January 2036 at 12:23 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.295°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.277° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 January 2036 at 21:59 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 28 January 2036 at 10:17 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.
