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Quarter ♎ Libra
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Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 68% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 68% and getting smaller. The 20 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 3 January 2045 at 10:20.
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 ♍ Virgo
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♎ Libra later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1918"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1918" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2045 after 24 days on 1 February 2045 at 21:05.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 10 January 2045 at 03:32
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 18 January 2045 at 04:25
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 26 January 2045 at 05:09
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 1 February 2045 at 21:05
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 556 / 1509
The Moon is 20 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 556 of Meeus index or 1509 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.81 days
Length of current 556 lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 32 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2045. It is 6 minutes longer than next lunation 557 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 6 hours and 48 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 15 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠156.9°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠156.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠182.1°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after perigee
4 days after point of perigee on 3 January 2045 at 19:25 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 9 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 17 January 2045 at 22:35 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 373 642 km
Moon is 373 642 km (232 170 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 9 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 609 km (252 655 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after its descending node on 6 January 2045 at 16:49 in ♌ Leo, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 12 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 21 January 2045 at 00:16 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
14 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
6 days after previous North standstill on 2 January 2045 at 06:32 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.069°. Next 6 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.098° in the next southern standstill on 15 January 2045 at 09:52 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 9 days
After 9 days on 18 January 2045 at 04:25 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.