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

Waxing Gibbous in Cancer

Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 86% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 11 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 ♋ Cancer

Moon is passing about ∠10° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 7 February 2090 at 18:52.

Snow Moon after 3 days

Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2090 after 3 days on 14 February 2090 at 13:39.

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 ∠1937"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1937" and ∠1944".

Lunation 1114 / 2067

The Moon is 11 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1114 of Meeus index or 2067 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.8 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 12 minutes and it is 1 hour and 10 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2090. 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 28 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 35 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠163.9°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠163.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠188.4°.

Moon before perigee

10 days since point of apogee on 1 February 2090 at 09:55 in ♓ Pisces 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 14 February 2090 at 17:13 in ♌ Leo.

Distance to Moon 369 999 km

The Moon is 369 999 km (229 907 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 621 km (221 594 mi).

Moon before ascending node

7 days after descending node on 3 February 2090 at 19:04 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 16 February 2090 at 19:19 in ♍ Virgo.

Moon after northern standstill

1 day since the last northern standstill on 10 February 2090 at 19:04 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.250° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.192° at the point of next southern standstill on 23 February 2090 at 11:00 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

21 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 3 days

In 3 days on 14 February 2090 at 13:39 in ♌ Leo 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