Waning Gibbous Moon
Waning Gibbous MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waning Gibbous in Virgo

Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 79% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 19 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

The 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 phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♍ Virgo

Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♎ Libra later.

4 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 17 January 2060 at 17:14.

Wolf Moon before 4 days

Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2060 after 24 days 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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1770"

Lunar disc appears visually 9.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1950".

Lunation 742 / 1695

The Moon is 19 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 742 of Meeus index or 1695 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.53 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 42 minutes and it is 1 hour and 53 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit 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 2 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 7 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠297.9°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠297.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠323.8°.

Moon before apogee

14 days since point of perigee on 8 January 2060 at 01:42 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 23 January 2060 at 16:37 in ♎ Libra.

Distance to Moon 405 049 km

The Moon is 405 049 km (251 686 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 707 km (251 473 mi).

Moon before descending node

10 days after ascending node on 12 January 2060 at 08:04 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 26 January 2060 at 11:07 in ♏ Scorpio.

Moon after northern standstill

6 days since the last northern standstill on 16 January 2060 at 03:50 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.171° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.245° at the point of next southern standstill on 30 January 2060 at 15:28 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 10 days

In 10 days on 2 February 2060 at 05:22 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov