Waning
Gibbous ♌ Leo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 98% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 98% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♌ Leo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 13 January 2074 at 06:31.
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 passing about ∠10° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1876"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1876" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2074 after 28 days on 11 February 2074 at 21:05.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 20 January 2074 at 08:20
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 27 January 2074 at 06:37
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 4 February 2074 at 04:02
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 11 February 2074 at 21:05
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 915 / 1868
The Moon is 16 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 915 of Meeus index or 1868 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.57 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 42 minutes. It is 1 hour and 41 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 58 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 5 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠43.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠43.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠72.6°.
Moon before apogee
7 days after point of apogee on 6 January 2074 at 17:28 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 January 2074 at 13:42 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 382 048 km
The Moon is 382 048 km (237 394 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 983 km (229 897 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♌ Leo at 16:24 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 27 January 2074 at 14:36 in ♒ Aquarius.
New draconic month
At 16:24 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after northern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 12 January 2074 at 06:32 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.258°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.239° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 January 2074 at 06:55 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 27 January 2074 at 06:37 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.
