Waning
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 99% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♌ Leo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 1 February 2056 at 12:36.
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 ∠4° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1922"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1922" and ∠1947".
Snow Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2056 after 28 days on 2 March 2056 at 00:40.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 8 February 2056 at 07:01
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 15 February 2056 at 14:00
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 23 February 2056 at 17:11
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 2 March 2056 at 00:40
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 693 / 1646
The Moon is 16 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 693 of Meeus index or 1646 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.66 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 49 minutes. It is 1 hour and 4 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 5 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 58 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠75.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠75.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠113.6°.
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of apogee on 24 January 2056 at 02:22 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 4 February 2056 at 23:51 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 372 923 km
The Moon is 372 923 km (231 724 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 040 km (228 068 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 31 January 2056 at 16:41 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 13 February 2056 at 13:45 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 30 January 2056 at 06:21 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.178°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.191° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 February 2056 at 02:37 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 13 days
In 13 days on 15 February 2056 at 14:00 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.
