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

Waxing Gibbous in Aries

Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 77% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 10 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 ♈ Aries

Moon is passing about ∠6° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 21 November 2069 at 21:31.

Beaver Moon after 4 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2069 after 4 days on 28 November 2069 at 13:46.

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 ∠1949"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1949" and ∠1944".

Lunation 864 / 1817

The Moon is 10 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 864 of Meeus index or 1817 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.79 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 1 minute and it is 1 hour and 15 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2069. 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 6 hours and 16 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 47 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠185.4°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠185.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠211.5°.

Moon before perigee

11 days since point of apogee on 13 November 2069 at 07:36 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 27 November 2069 at 21:53 in ♉ Taurus.

Distance to Moon 367 852 km

The Moon is 367 852 km (228 573 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 487 km (222 132 mi).

Moon before descending node

12 days after ascending node on 12 November 2069 at 11:24 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 26 November 2069 at 10:32 in ♉ Taurus.

Moon before northern standstill

8 days since the last southern standstill on 16 November 2069 at 09:59 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.293° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.315° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 November 2069 at 13:04 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 4 days

In 4 days on 28 November 2069 at 13:46 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