Waning
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 98% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 98% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♌ Leo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 21 January 2038 at 04:00.
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 ∠20° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1933"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1933" and ∠1949".
Wolf Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2038 after 28 days on 19 February 2038 at 16:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 27 January 2038 at 22:00
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 4 February 2038 at 05:52
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 12 February 2038 at 09:30
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 19 February 2038 at 16:09
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 470 / 1423
The Moon is 16 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 470 of Meeus index or 1423 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.67 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 11 minutes. It is 1 hour and 12 minutes shorter 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 27 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 36 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠79.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠79.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠117.1°.
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of apogee on 12 January 2038 at 13:57 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 24 January 2038 at 09:52 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 370 746 km
The Moon is 370 746 km (230 371 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 508 km (227 738 mi).
Moon after ascending node
2 days after ascending node on 20 January 2038 at 08:06 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 2 February 2038 at 05:08 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
2 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 19 January 2038 at 19:02 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.188°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-22.196° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 February 2038 at 15:22 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 4 February 2038 at 05:52 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.
