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 95% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 12 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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.

4 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 10 January 2060 at 12:52.

Wolf Moon after 2 days

Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2060 after 2 days on 17 January 2060 at 17:14.

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 ∠1884"

Lunar disc appears visually 3.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1884" and ∠1951".

Lunation 742 / 1695

The Moon is 12 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 742 of Meeus index or 1695 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.53 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 42 minutes and it is 1 hour and 53 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 shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 2 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 7 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠297.9°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠297.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠323.8°.

Moon after perigee

7 days since point of perigee on 8 January 2060 at 01:42 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 23 January 2060 at 16:37 in ♎ Libra.

Distance to Moon 380 466 km

The Moon is 380 466 km (236 411 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 707 km (251 473 mi).

Moon after ascending node

3 days after ascending node on 12 January 2060 at 08:04 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 26 January 2060 at 11:07 in ♏ Scorpio.

Moon before northern standstill

12 days since the last southern standstill on 3 January 2060 at 06:16 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.156° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠27.171° at the point of next northern standstill on 16 January 2060 at 03:50 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

3 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 2 days

In 2 days on 17 January 2060 at 17:14 in ♋ Cancer 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