Waning Gibbous Moon
Waning Gibbous MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waning Gibbous in Leo

Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 96% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

The 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 phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♌ Leo

Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.

1 day after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 23 January 2073 at 20:05.

Wolf Moon before 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2073 after 27 days on 22 February 2073 at 07:26.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1961"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1961" and ∠1949".

Lunation 903 / 1856

The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 903 of Meeus index or 1856 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.73 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 30 minutes and it is 1 hour and 5 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit 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 4 hours and 46 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 17 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠105.7°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠105.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠140.9°.

Moon at perigee

Moon is at perigee at 21:07 about 11 days since last apogee on 14 January 2073 at 02:24 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 16 days until point of next apogee on 10 February 2073 at 19:47 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 362 567 km

This perigee Moon is 362 567 km (225 289 mi) away from Earth. It is 59 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 7 789 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.

Moon in ascending node

Moon is in ascending node in ♌ Leo at 14:53 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 8 February 2073 at 00:44 in ♓ Pisces.

Moon after northern standstill

3 days since the last northern standstill on 21 January 2073 at 22:36 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.043° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.012° at the point of next southern standstill on 3 February 2073 at 17:41 in ♑ Capricorn.

New draconic month

At 14:53 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.

Syzygy in 12 days

In 12 days on 7 February 2073 at 01:40 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov