Waning Gibbous Moon
Waning Gibbous MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waning Gibbous in Libra

Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 65% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 20 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

The 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 phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♎ Libra

Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.

6 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 6 days on 19 January 2049 at 02:29.

Wolf Moon before 6 days

Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2049 after 23 days on 17 February 2049 at 20:47.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1885"

Lunar disc appears visually 3.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1885" and ∠1949".

Lunation 606 / 1559

The Moon is 20 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 606 of Meeus index or 1559 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.45 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 51 minutes and it is 5 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2049. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 53 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 16 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠3.8°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠3.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠20°.

Moon before perigee

8 days since point of apogee on 17 January 2049 at 00:48 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 1 February 2049 at 08:51 in ♑ Capricorn.

Distance to Moon 380 183 km

The Moon is 380 183 km (236 235 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 256 km (223 231 mi).

Moon before ascending node

9 days after descending node on 15 January 2049 at 14:48 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 29 January 2049 at 17:52 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Moon before southern standstill

9 days since the last northern standstill on 15 January 2049 at 14:32 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.889° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-22.806° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 January 2049 at 19:42 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

23 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 8 days

In 8 days on 2 February 2049 at 13:16 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov