Waning
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 85% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 85% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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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 2 January 2056 at 22:05.
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 ∠1° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1933"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1933" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2056 after 26 days on 1 February 2056 at 12:36.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 9 January 2056 at 23:13
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 16 January 2056 at 22:10
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 24 January 2056 at 20:21
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 1 February 2056 at 12:36
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 692 / 1645
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 692 of Meeus index or 1645 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.58 days
Length of current 692 lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 55 minutes. It is 1 hour and 54 minutes shorter than next lunation 693 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 11 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 52 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠45.5°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠45.5°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠75.8°. 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
10 days after point of apogee on 27 December 2055 at 05:00 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 4 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 10 January 2056 at 16:48 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 370 795 km
Moon is 370 795 km (230 401 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 4 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 370 190 km (230 025 mi).
Moon after ascending node
2 days after its ascending node on 4 January 2056 at 07:42 in ♌ Leo, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 10 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 17 January 2056 at 06:04 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
2 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
3 days after previous North standstill on 2 January 2056 at 21:00 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠21.189°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-21.177° in the next southern standstill on 15 January 2056 at 19:49 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 10 days
After 10 days on 16 January 2056 at 22:10 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.