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Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 60% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 60% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 6 days on 26 January 2089 at 11:25.
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 ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1846"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1846" and ∠1947".
Wolf Moon before 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2089 after 23 days on 24 February 2089 at 22:05.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 2 February 2089 at 10:23
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 10 February 2089 at 15:16
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 18 February 2089 at 07:15
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 24 February 2089 at 22:05
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 1101 / 2054
The Moon is 21 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1101 of Meeus index or 2054 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.79 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 58 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2089. It is 1 hour and 50 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 6 hours and 14 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 49 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠185.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠185.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠211.9°.
Moon before perigee
6 days after point of perigee on 25 January 2089 at 19:36 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 7 February 2089 at 10:18 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 388 268 km
The Moon is 388 268 km (241 259 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 252 km (252 433 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 31 January 2089 at 14:33 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 13 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 15 February 2089 at 05:13 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 23 January 2089 at 16:28 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.817°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.740° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 February 2089 at 19:19 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 9 days
In 9 days on 10 February 2089 at 15:16 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.
