Waning
Gibbous ♌ Leo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 97% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 97% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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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 28 December 2088 at 00:57.
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 is entering ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1970"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1951".
Cold Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2089 after 27 days on 26 January 2089 at 11:25.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 3 January 2089 at 18:00
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 11 January 2089 at 20:17
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 19 January 2089 at 19:47
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 26 January 2089 at 11:25
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 1100 / 2053
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 1100 of Meeus index or 2053 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.81 days
Length of current 1100 lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 26 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2088. It is 28 minutes longer than next lunation 1101 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 6 hours and 42 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 21 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠160.8°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠160.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠185.7°. 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 perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 28 December 2088 at 06:32 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 12 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 11 January 2089 at 04:23 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 363 902 km
Moon is 363 902 km (226 118 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 12 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 703 km (252 714 mi).
Moon before ascending node
6 days after its descending node on 23 December 2088 at 02:43 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 6 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 4 January 2089 at 12:45 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
21 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
2 days after previous North standstill on 27 December 2088 at 04:20 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠18.933°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-18.913° in the next southern standstill on 9 January 2089 at 11:54 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 13 days
After 13 days on 11 January 2089 at 20:17 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.