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Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 61% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 61% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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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 11 December 2095 at 06:21.
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 ∠13° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1797"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1797" and ∠1950".
Cold Moon before 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2096 after 23 days on 9 January 2096 at 19:20.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 18 December 2095 at 15:14
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 26 December 2095 at 18:24
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 2 January 2096 at 23:02
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 9 January 2096 at 19:20
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 1186 / 2139
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 1186 of Meeus index or 2139 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.73 days
Length of current 1186 lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 30 minutes. It is 2 hours and 10 minutes longer than next lunation 1187 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 46 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 17 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠219.6°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠219.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠255°. 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 before apogee
8 days after point of perigee on 9 December 2095 at 04:46 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 3 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 20 December 2095 at 23:26 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 398 760 km
Moon is 398 760 km (247 778 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 3 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 919 km (251 605 mi).
Moon after ascending node
6 days after its ascending node on 10 December 2095 at 14:42 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 7 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 24 December 2095 at 17:49 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
6 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
4 days after previous North standstill on 12 December 2095 at 17:11 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠25.653°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-25.640° in the next southern standstill on 27 December 2095 at 03:42 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 9 days
After 9 days on 26 December 2095 at 18:24 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.