Waning
Gibbous ♎ Libra
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 70% and getting smaller. The 20 days old Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 22 January 2065 at 09:53.
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 passing about ∠14° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1968" and ∠1948".
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2065 after 24 days on 20 February 2065 at 23:11.
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.
The Moon is 20 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 804 of Meeus index or 1757 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 47 minutes. It is 1 hour and 26 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°).
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 3 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠57.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠92.7°.
Moon is at perigee at 15:26. It is 12 days after previous apogee on 14 January 2065 at 21:51 in ♈ Aries. 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 11 February 2065 at 18:57 in ♈ Aries.
This perigee Moon is 369 668 km (229 701 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest perigee of 2065. It is 7 160 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 688 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
4 days after descending node on 22 January 2065 at 16:09 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 4 February 2065 at 14:31 in ♑ Capricorn.
19 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
8 days since the previous standstill on 19 January 2065 at 06:26 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.834°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.842° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 February 2065 at 07:20 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 8 days on 5 February 2065 at 10:02 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.