Waning
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 87% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 87% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♌ Leo.
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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 4 January 2064 at 09:31.
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 ♌ Leo
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1967"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1967" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2064 after 26 days on 2 February 2064 at 21:37.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 11 January 2064 at 03:14
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 18 January 2064 at 12:37
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 26 January 2064 at 17:42
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 2 February 2064 at 21:37
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 791 / 1744
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 791 of Meeus index or 1744 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.69 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 33 minutes. It is 1 hour and 53 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 49 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 14 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠88.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠88.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠125.9°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 03:30. It is 11 days after previous apogee on 26 December 2063 at 09:48 in ♓ Pisces. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 15 days, until point of next apogee on 23 January 2064 at 05:31 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 365 135 km
This perigee Moon is 365 135 km (226 884 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 627 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 5 221 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♌ Leo at 06:27 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 13 days later on 20 January 2064 at 17:11 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 3 January 2064 at 00:55 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.781°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.815° at the point of next southern standstill on 15 January 2064 at 20:47 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 18 January 2064 at 12:37 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.
