Waning
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
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 ♍ Virgo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 1 January 2048 at 06:57.
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 is entering ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1882"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1882" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2048 after 25 days on 31 January 2048 at 00:14.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 8 January 2048 at 18:49
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 15 January 2048 at 11:32
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 22 January 2048 at 21:56
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 31 January 2048 at 00:14
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 593 / 1546
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 593 of Meeus index or 1546 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.5 days
Length of current 593 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 54 minutes. It is 1 hour and 5 minutes shorter than next lunation 594 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 50 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 19 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠18.2°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠18.2°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠37.7°. 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 before perigee
8 days after point of apogee on 28 December 2047 at 02:49 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 13 January 2048 at 03:53 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 380 927 km
Moon is 380 927 km (236 697 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 7 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 363 708 km (225 998 mi).
Moon after descending node
4 days after its descending node on 31 December 2047 at 23:38 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 8 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 14 January 2048 at 05:27 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
18 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
6 days after previous North standstill on 30 December 2047 at 11:40 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠24.565°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-24.561° in the next southern standstill on 13 January 2048 at 00:07 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 9 days
After 9 days on 15 January 2048 at 11:32 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.