Waning Gibbous

on 23 December
2002 Monday

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Moon phase on 23 December 2002 Monday is

Waning Gibbous, 18 days old Moon is in Leo.

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Moon phase for

23 December 2002
Monday 12:00 UTC

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Waning Gibbous phase

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Waning Gibbous 85%

illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on 23
December 2002, Monday. Seen from Earth,
illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 85% and
getting smaller. The 18 days old Moon is in Leo.

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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 19 December 2002 at 19:10.

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 Leo
Moon is passing about ∠16° of Leo tropical
zodiac sector.

Apparent angular diameter

∠ 1908"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.2% narrower than
solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular
diameters are ∠1908" and ∠1951".

Cold Moon before 3 days

Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2003
after 25 days on 18 January 2003 at 10:48.

Upcoming main Moon phases

Last Quarter in Libra after 3 days on

27 December 2002 at 00:31

New Moon in Capricorn after 10 days on

2 January 2003 at 20:23

First Quarter in Aries after 18 days on

10 January 2003 at 13:15

Full Moon in Cancer after 25 days on

18 January 2003 at 10:48

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 36 / 989
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 36 of Meeus index
or 989 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.53

days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and
48 minutes. It is 1 hour and 38 minutes shorter
than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the
following synodic months are going to increasing
with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it
has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).

Lunation length longer than

mean
The length of the current synodic month is
4 minutes longer than the mean synodic month
length. It is 6 hours and 59 minutes shorter
compared to 21st century's longest synodic month
length.

Lunar orbit position on 23

December 2002 Monday
12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠ 32.1°

At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true
anomaly is ∠32.1°. At the beginning of next synodic
month the true anomaly is going to be ∠56.5°.

Moon before apogee

9 days after point of apogee on 14 December 2002
at 03:57 in Aries. The lunar orbit is getting
narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the
Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days,
until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on
30 December 2002 at 01:06 in Scorpio.

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Distance to Moon 375 685 km

The Moon is 375 685 km (233 440 mi) away from
Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until
the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is
going to be 367 904 km (228 605 mi).

Moon after ascending node

5 days after ascending node on 18 December 2002
at 06:47 in Gemini. The Moon is located north
of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the
lunar orbit crosses from North to South in
descending node on 31 December 2002 at 11:16
in Sagittarius.

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Draconic month
5 days since the beginning of current draconic
month in Gemini, the Moon is navigating from
the beginning to the first part of the cycle.

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Moon after northern standstill

2 days since the previous standstill on
20 December 2002 at 18:29 in Cancer when
the Moon has reached North declination of
∠25.790°, the lunar orbit is extending southward
over the next 10 days to face maximum declination
of ∠-25.783° at the point of next southern standstill
on 2 January 2003 at 16:56 in Capricorn.

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Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 2 January 2003 at 20:23 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.

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fl 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

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