Waning
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
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Waning Gibbous 86% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 86% 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 17 January 2060 at 17:14.
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 ∠15° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1776"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1776" and ∠1950".
Wolf Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2060 after 25 days on 16 February 2060 at 09:56.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 25 January 2060 at 19:14
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 2 February 2060 at 05:22
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 8 February 2060 at 21:41
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 16 February 2060 at 09:56
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 742 / 1695
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 742 of Meeus index or 1695 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.53 days
Length of current 742 lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 42 minutes. It is 1 hour and 53 minutes longer than next lunation 743 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 6 hours and 7 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠297.9°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠297.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠323.8°. 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 before apogee
13 days after point of perigee on 8 January 2060 at 01:42 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 2 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 23 January 2060 at 16:37 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 403 628 km
Moon is 403 628 km (250 803 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 2 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 707 km (251 473 mi).
Moon before descending node
9 days after its ascending node on 12 January 2060 at 08:04 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 4 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 26 January 2060 at 11:07 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
9 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days after previous North standstill on 16 January 2060 at 03:50 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠27.171°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-27.245° in the next southern standstill on 30 January 2060 at 15:28 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 11 days
After 11 days on 2 February 2060 at 05:22 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.