Waning Gibbous Moon
Waning Gibbous MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waning Gibbous in Virgo

Waning Gibbous on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 60% and getting smaller. Lunar cycle is 21 days old.

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.

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon is entering ♍ Virgo

Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.

6 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 6 days on 25 December 2091 at 21:59.

Cold Moon before 6 days

Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2092 after 23 days on 24 January 2092 at 14:55.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1940"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1940" and ∠1951".

Lunation 1137 / 2090

The Moon is 21 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1137 of Meeus index or 2090 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.49 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 43 minutes and it is 1 hour and 43 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 1 minute shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 8 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠20.8°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠20.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠40.9°.

Moon before perigee

11 days since point of apogee on 21 December 2091 at 10:59 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 January 2092 at 12:22 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 369 404 km

The Moon is 369 404 km (229 537 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 495 km (226 487 mi).

Moon after ascending node

2 days after ascending node on 29 December 2091 at 20:00 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 11 January 2092 at 13:52 in ♒ Aquarius.

Moon after northern standstill

6 days since the last northern standstill on 26 December 2091 at 05:43 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.486° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.466° at the point of next southern standstill on 8 January 2092 at 08:40 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 7 days

In 7 days on 9 January 2092 at 01:37 in ♑ Capricorn 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov