Waning
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 96% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 96% 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 14 January 2044 at 18:51.
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 ∠19° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1917"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1917" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2044 after 27 days on 13 February 2044 at 06:42.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 21 January 2044 at 23:47
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 30 January 2044 at 04:04
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 6 February 2044 at 13:46
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 13 February 2044 at 06:42
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 544 / 1497
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 544 of Meeus index or 1497 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.76 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 16 minutes. It is 2 hours and 8 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 5 hours and 32 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 31 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠204.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠204.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠235.6°.
Moon after perigee
3 days after point of perigee on 13 January 2044 at 09:08 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 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 25 January 2044 at 09:32 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 373 964 km
The Moon is 373 964 km (232 370 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 544 km (251 993 mi).
Moon before descending node
10 days after ascending node on 6 January 2044 at 06:50 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 18 January 2044 at 19:49 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
10 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 13 January 2044 at 02:29 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.453°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.503° at the point of next southern standstill on 26 January 2044 at 18:54 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 13 days
In 13 days on 30 January 2044 at 04:04 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.
