Waning
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 85% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 85% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♌ Leo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 22 December 2075 at 08:48.
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 ∠20° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1776"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1776" and ∠1951".
Cold Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2076 after 25 days on 21 January 2076 at 04:39.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 30 December 2075 at 13:20
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 6 January 2076 at 10:14
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 13 January 2076 at 03:02
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 21 January 2076 at 04:39
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 939 / 1892
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 939 of Meeus index or 1892 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.47 days
Length of current 939 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 11 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2075. It is 24 minutes longer than next lunation 940 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 33 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 36 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠337.3°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠337.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠354°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after apogee
1 day after point of apogee on 24 December 2075 at 19:52 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 11 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 6 January 2076 at 18:38 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 403 516 km
Moon is 403 516 km (250 733 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 11 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 356 990 km (221 823 mi).
Moon after ascending node
3 days after its ascending node on 22 December 2075 at 18:35 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 10 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 5 January 2076 at 17:45 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
3 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
3 days after previous North standstill on 23 December 2075 at 08:11 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠23.513°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-23.509° in the next southern standstill on 6 January 2076 at 04:17 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 10 days
After 10 days on 6 January 2076 at 10:14 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.