Waning
Gibbous ♌ Leo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 85% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 85% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♌ Leo.
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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 7 December 2041 at 17:42.
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 ∠5° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1798"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1798" and ∠1949".
Cold Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2042 after 25 days on 6 January 2042 at 08:54.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 15 December 2041 at 13:32
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 23 December 2041 at 08:06
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 30 December 2041 at 03:46
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 6 January 2042 at 08:54
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 518 / 1471
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 518 of Meeus index or 1471 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.6 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 30 minutes. It is 1 hour and 54 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 1 hour and 46 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 17 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠265.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠265.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠300.9°.
Moon before perigee
8 days after point of perigee on 2 December 2041 at 16:20 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 15 December 2041 at 07:09 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 398 641 km
The Moon is 398 641 km (247 704 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 332 km (251 240 mi).
Moon after ascending node
6 days after ascending node on 4 December 2041 at 20:02 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 18 December 2041 at 23:35 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
6 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, 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 9 December 2041 at 04:59 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.747°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.725° at the point of next southern standstill on 23 December 2041 at 14:23 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 23 December 2041 at 08:06 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.
