Waning
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 84% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 84% and getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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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 9 January 2077 at 04:37.
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 ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2077 after 25 days on 7 February 2077 at 23:08.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 17 January 2077 at 09:09
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 24 January 2077 at 12:45
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 31 January 2077 at 03:35
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 7 February 2077 at 23:08
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 952 / 1905
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 952 of Meeus index or 1905 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.49 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 52 minutes. It is 1 hour and 31 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 52 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 17 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠319.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠319.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠339.5°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 15:13. It is 16 days after previous perigee on 28 December 2076 at 13:46 in ♒ Aquarius. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 12 days, until point of next perigee on 25 January 2077 at 18:01 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 405 574 km
This apogee Moon is 405 574 km (252 012 mi) away from Earth. It is 166 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 135 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
6 days after ascending node on 6 January 2077 at 14:25 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 21 January 2077 at 03:21 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
6 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 8 January 2077 at 11:32 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.079°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.115° at the point of next southern standstill on 22 January 2077 at 20:40 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 24 January 2077 at 12:45 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.
