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
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 55 minutes. It is 1 hour and 37 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 5 hours and 11 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 52 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠126.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠126.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠156.9°.
Moon after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 6 December 2044 at 08:05 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 13 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 21 December 2044 at 20:29 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 363 820 km
The Moon is 363 820 km (226 067 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 13 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 354 km (252 497 mi).
Moon before descending node
10 days after ascending node on 27 November 2044 at 20:02 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 10 December 2044 at 12:32 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
2 days since the previous standstill on 5 December 2044 at 19:56 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.056°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.031° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 December 2044 at 04:38 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 19 December 2044 at 08:53 in ♐ Sagittarius 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.
