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Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 59% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 59% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
7 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 7 days on 9 December 2049 at 07:28.
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 passing about ∠14° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1780"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1780" and ∠1950".
Cold Moon before 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2050 after 22 days on 8 January 2050 at 01:39.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 17 December 2049 at 11:15
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 24 December 2049 at 17:51
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 31 December 2049 at 08:53
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 8 January 2050 at 01:39
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 617 / 1570
The Moon is 21 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 617 of Meeus index or 1570 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.51 days
Length of current 617 lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 16 minutes. It is 1 hour and 11 minutes longer than next lunation 618 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 28 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 41 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠310.2°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠310.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠332.9°. 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 apogee
2 days after point of apogee on 14 December 2049 at 11:17 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 9 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 26 December 2049 at 08:57 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 402 790 km
Moon is 402 790 km (250 282 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 9 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 360 939 km (224 277 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after its descending node on 7 December 2049 at 22:33 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 5 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 22 December 2049 at 10:13 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
21 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
7 days after previous North standstill on 9 December 2049 at 08:52 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠21.283°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-21.275° in the next southern standstill on 23 December 2049 at 17:33 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 8 days
After 8 days on 24 December 2049 at 17:51 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.