Waning
Gibbous ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
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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 14 January 2063 at 19:11.
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 ∠20° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1949"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1949" and ∠1950".
Wolf Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2063 after 25 days on 13 February 2063 at 05:48.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 21 January 2063 at 12:05
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 29 January 2063 at 12:23
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 6 February 2063 at 13:37
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 13 February 2063 at 05:48
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 779 / 1732
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 779 of Meeus index or 1732 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.81 days
Length of current 779 lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 26 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2063. It is 11 minutes longer than next lunation 780 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 6 hours and 42 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 21 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠154.3°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠154.3°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠179.8°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon after perigee
3 days after point of perigee on 15 January 2063 at 06:21 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 11 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 29 January 2063 at 13:00 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 367 832 km
Moon is 367 832 km (228 560 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 11 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 600 km (252 650 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♍ Virgo at 01:44 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from North to South. Moon will follow the southern part of its orbit for the next 13 days to meet ascending node on 1 February 2063 at 08:33 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
13 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the middle to the last part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days after previous North standstill on 13 January 2063 at 00:22 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.364°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.406° in the next southern standstill on 25 January 2063 at 23:21 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 11 days
After 11 days on 29 January 2063 at 12:23 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.