Waning
Gibbous ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
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 25 January 2062 at 03:37.
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 ∠24° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1882"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1882" and ∠1948".
Wolf Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2062 after 26 days on 23 February 2062 at 15:08.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 1 February 2062 at 07:43
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 9 February 2062 at 12:11
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 16 February 2062 at 22:38
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 23 February 2062 at 15:08
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 767 / 1720
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 767 of Meeus index or 1720 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.76 days
Length of current 767 lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 18 minutes. It is 2 hours and 15 minutes longer than next lunation 768 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 34 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 29 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠201.9°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠201.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠232.2°. 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 after perigee
4 days after point of perigee on 23 January 2062 at 20:23 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 4 February 2062 at 22:20 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 380 836 km
Moon is 380 836 km (236 641 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 7 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 649 km (252 059 mi).
Moon before descending node
11 days after its ascending node on 16 January 2062 at 15:36 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 29 January 2062 at 04:17 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
11 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days after previous North standstill on 22 January 2062 at 20:38 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.481°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.542° in the next southern standstill on 5 February 2062 at 08:12 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 12 days
After 12 days on 9 February 2062 at 12:11 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.