Waning
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 90% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 90% 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 8 January 2050 at 01:39.
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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1769"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2050 after 26 days on 6 February 2050 at 20:47.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 16 January 2050 at 06:17
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 23 January 2050 at 04:57
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 29 January 2050 at 20:48
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 6 February 2050 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.
Lunation 618 / 1571
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 618 of Meeus index or 1571 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.46 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 5 minutes. It is 58 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 39 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 30 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠332.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠332.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠350.1°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 02:36. It is 15 days after previous perigee on 26 December 2049 at 08:57 in ♑ Capricorn. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 12 days, until point of next perigee on 23 January 2050 at 18:50 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 406 128 km
This apogee Moon is 406 128 km (252 356 mi) away from Earth. It is 720 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 581 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
7 days after descending node on 4 January 2050 at 03:20 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 18 January 2050 at 17:33 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
20 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 5 January 2050 at 16:08 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.260°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.179° at the point of next southern standstill on 20 January 2050 at 05:15 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 23 January 2050 at 04:57 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.
