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 99% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 14 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 ∠18° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.

6 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 days on 13 January 2095 at 02:28.

Wolf Moon after 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2095 after 1 day on 20 January 2095 at 12:48.

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 ∠1823"

Lunar disc appears visually 6.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1823" and ∠1950".

Lunation 1175 / 2128

The Moon is 14 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1175 of Meeus index or 2128 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.5 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 55 minutes and it is 1 hour and 45 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 49 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 20 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠317.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠317.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠337.7°.

Moon before apogee

10 days since point of perigee on 9 January 2095 at 02:21 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 25 January 2095 at 03:56 in ♍ Virgo.

Distance to Moon 393 133 km

The Moon is 393 133 km (244 282 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 464 km (251 944 mi).

Moon after ascending node

1 day after ascending node on 17 January 2095 at 23:02 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 1 February 2095 at 11:53 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Moon at northern standstill

At 00:03 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠24.116°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2095. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-24.164° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 2 February 2095 at 11:47.

Draconic month

1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 1 day

In 1 day on 20 January 2095 at 12:48 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