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

Waxing Gibbous in Aries

Waxing Gibbous on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 84% and growing larger. Lunar cycle is 11 days young.

Moonrise and moonset

Moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon is entering ♈ Aries

Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 5 November 2046 at 12:28.

Beaver Moon after 4 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2046 after 4 days on 13 November 2046 at 17:04.

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 ∠1769"

Lunar disc appears visually 9.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1938".

Lunation 579 / 1532

The Moon is 11 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 579 of Meeus index or 1532 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.44 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 33 minutes and it is 2 hours and 16 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 2 hours and 11 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 58 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠16.7°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠16.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠35.1°.

Moon at apogee

Moon is at apogee at 19:38 about 12 days since last perigee on 28 October 2046 at 11:41 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 16 days until point of next perigee on 25 November 2046 at 18:09 in ♎ Libra.

Distance to Moon 405 682 km

This apogee Moon is 405 682 km (252 079 mi) away from Earth. It is 274 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 027 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.

Moon after ascending node

5 days after ascending node on 4 November 2046 at 08:16 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 18 November 2046 at 21:00 in ♋ Cancer.

Moon before northern standstill

7 days since the last southern standstill on 1 November 2046 at 13:02 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.165° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.076° at the point of next northern standstill on 16 November 2046 at 01:54 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

5 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 4 days

In 4 days on 13 November 2046 at 17:04 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon 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