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Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 62% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 62% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 6 days on 31 December 2066 at 14:41.
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 ♎ Libra
Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1839"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1839" and ∠1951".
Cold Moon before 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2067 after 22 days on 30 January 2067 at 10:29.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 8 January 2067 at 17:01
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 15 January 2067 at 11:17
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 22 January 2067 at 06:17
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 30 January 2067 at 10:29
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 828 / 1781
The Moon is 21 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 828 of Meeus index or 1781 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.46 days
Length of current 828 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 59 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2067. It is 19 minutes longer than next lunation 829 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 45 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 24 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠346.7°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠346.7°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠2.4°. 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 apogee
5 days after point of apogee on 1 January 2067 at 14:49 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 15 January 2067 at 07:56 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 389 723 km
Moon is 389 723 km (242 163 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 7 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 356 756 km (221 678 mi).
Moon before ascending node
7 days after its descending node on 30 December 2066 at 17:42 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 6 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 13 January 2067 at 18:46 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
21 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
8 days after previous North standstill on 29 December 2066 at 18:32 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠23.938°. Next 5 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-23.918° in the next southern standstill on 13 January 2067 at 00:58 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 7 days
After 7 days on 15 January 2067 at 11:17 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.