Waning
Gibbous ♎ Libra
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
3 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 25 January 2081 at 04:01.
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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♎ Libra later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1957"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1957" and ∠1948".
Wolf Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2081 after 26 days on 23 February 2081 at 14:27.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 31 January 2081 at 20:37
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 8 February 2081 at 20:17
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 16 February 2081 at 21:59
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 23 February 2081 at 14:27
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 1002 / 1955
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 1002 of Meeus index or 1955 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.8 days
Length of current 1002 lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 15 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2081. It is 15 minutes longer than next lunation 1003 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 6 hours and 31 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 32 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠151.7°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠151.7°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠177.5°. 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 perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 25 January 2081 at 17:17 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 11 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 9 February 2081 at 03:24 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 366 277 km
Moon is 366 277 km (227 594 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 11 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 582 km (252 638 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♍ Virgo at 10:41 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from North to South. Moon will follow the southern part of its orbit for the next 14 days to meet ascending node on 11 February 2081 at 16:49 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
12 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the middle to the last part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days after previous North standstill on 22 January 2081 at 17:53 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.501°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.557° in the next southern standstill on 4 February 2081 at 13:10 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 11 days
After 11 days on 8 February 2081 at 20:17 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.