Waning
Gibbous ♌ Leo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 83% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 83% 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 4 December 2044 at 23:34.
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 ∠6° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1970"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1948".
Cold Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2045 after 25 days on 3 January 2045 at 10:20.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 11 December 2044 at 14:52
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 19 December 2044 at 08:53
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 27 December 2044 at 14:00
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 3 January 2045 at 10:20
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 555 / 1508
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 555 of Meeus index or 1508 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.75 days
Length of current 555 lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 55 minutes. It is 1 hour and 37 minutes shorter than next lunation 556 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 11 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 52 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠126.5°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠126.5°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠156.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 6 December 2044 at 08:05 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 13 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 21 December 2044 at 20:29 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 363 820 km
Moon is 363 820 km (226 067 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 13 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 354 km (252 497 mi).
Moon before descending node
10 days after its ascending node on 27 November 2044 at 20:02 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 2 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 10 December 2044 at 12:32 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
10 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
2 days after previous North standstill on 5 December 2044 at 19:56 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.056°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.031° in the next southern standstill on 19 December 2044 at 04:38 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 10 days
After 10 days on 19 December 2044 at 08:53 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.