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

Waxing Gibbous in Virgo

Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 99% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 14 days young.

Moonrise and moonset

The 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.

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♍ Virgo

Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.

5 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 6 March 2055 at 14:48.

Worm Moon after 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2055 after 1 day on 13 March 2055 at 08:57.

Moderate tide

There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1972"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1931".

Lunation 682 / 1635

The Moon is 14 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 682 of Meeus index or 1635 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.77 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 22 minutes and it is 2 hours and 6 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit 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 5 hours and 38 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 25 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠170.8°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠170.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠194.9°.

Moon before perigee

12 days since point of apogee on 27 February 2055 at 13:56 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 13 March 2055 at 06:25 in ♍ Virgo.

Distance to Moon 363 563 km

The Moon is 363 563 km (225 908 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 697 km (221 641 mi).

Moon after ascending node

1 day after ascending node on 11 March 2055 at 03:26 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 24 March 2055 at 03:28 in ♒ Aquarius.

Moon after northern standstill

4 days since the last northern standstill on 8 March 2055 at 09:08 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.771° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.832° at the point of next southern standstill on 20 March 2055 at 22:19 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

1 day 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 1 day

In 1 day on 13 March 2055 at 08:57 in ♍ Virgo 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