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

Waxing Gibbous in Gemini

Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 68% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 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 ♊ Gemini

Moon is passing about ∠17° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 11 February 2057 at 12:25.

Snow Moon after 5 days

Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2057 after 5 days on 19 February 2057 at 11:56.

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 ∠1769"

Lunar disc appears visually 9.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1943".

Lunation 706 / 1659

The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 706 of Meeus index or 1659 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.55 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 14 minutes and it is 53 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 30 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 33 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠48.7°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠48.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠80°.

Moon after apogee

1 day since point of apogee on 12 February 2057 at 14:05 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 26 February 2057 at 15:47 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 405 206 km

The Moon is 405 206 km (251 783 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 13 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 370 210 km (230 038 mi).

Moon before ascending node

11 days after descending node on 1 February 2057 at 14:12 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 15 February 2057 at 14:03 in ♋ Cancer.

Moon before northern standstill

11 days since the last southern standstill on 1 February 2057 at 14:10 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.875° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.925° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 February 2057 at 14:48 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

25 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 5 days

In 5 days on 19 February 2057 at 11:56 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