Waning
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 81% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 81% and getting smaller. The 19 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 26 December 2061 at 16:53.
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 ∠2° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1914"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1914" and ∠1951".
Cold Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2062 after 25 days on 25 January 2062 at 03:37.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 2 January 2062 at 13:21
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 10 January 2062 at 17:52
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 18 January 2062 at 12:51
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 25 January 2062 at 03:37
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 766 / 1719
The Moon is 19 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 766 of Meeus index or 1719 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.81 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 20 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2061. It is 1 hour and 2 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 6 hours and 36 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 27 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠176.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠176.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠201.9°.
Moon before apogee
18 days after point of apogee on 12 December 2061 at 07:27 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 8 January 2062 at 09:05 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 374 477 km
The Moon is 374 477 km (232 689 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 473 km (252 571 mi).
Moon before descending node
9 days after ascending node on 20 December 2061 at 15:02 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 2 January 2062 at 00:30 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
9 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 26 December 2061 at 10:29 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.396°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.405° at the point of next southern standstill on 9 January 2062 at 02:13 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 10 January 2062 at 17:52 in ♑ Capricorn 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.
