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 87% 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 in ♈ Aries

Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♉ Taurus later.

4 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 27 November 2082 at 04:07.

Cold Moon after 3 days

Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2082 after 3 days on 5 December 2082 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 ∠1769"

Lunar disc appears visually 9.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1946".

Lunation 1025 / 1978

The Moon is 11 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1025 of Meeus index or 1978 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.45 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 51 minutes and it is 1 hour and 48 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 1 hour and 53 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 16 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠13.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠13.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠31°.

Moon at apogee

Moon is at apogee at 21:23 about 12 days since last perigee on 19 November 2082 at 09:39 in ♏ Scorpio 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 17 December 2082 at 18:03 in ♏ Scorpio.

Distance to Moon 405 910 km

This apogee Moon is 405 910 km (252 221 mi) away from Earth. It is 502 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 799 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.

Moon after ascending node

5 days after ascending node on 26 November 2082 at 01:01 in ♒ Aquarius 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 10 December 2082 at 14:39 in ♌ Leo.

Moon before northern standstill

9 days since the last southern standstill on 21 November 2082 at 22:04 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.458° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.402° at the point of next northern standstill on 6 December 2082 at 05:19 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

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

Syzygy in 3 days

In 3 days on 5 December 2082 at 08:57 in ♊ Gemini 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