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 93% 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 is entering ♋ Cancer

Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 21 January 2097 at 03:27.

Wolf Moon after 2 days

Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2097 after 2 days on 27 January 2097 at 19:47.

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 ∠1966"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1949".

Lunation 1200 / 2153

The Moon is 12 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1200 of Meeus index or 2153 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.7 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 49 minutes and it is 2 hours and 41 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 5 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 58 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠222.5°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠222.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠257.9°.

Moon at perigee

Moon is at perigee at 15:17 about 16 days since last apogee on 9 January 2097 at 15:16 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 11 days until point of next apogee on 6 February 2097 at 09:39 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 363 132 km

This perigee Moon is 363 132 km (225 640 mi) away from Earth. It is 624 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 7 224 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.

Moon after ascending node

3 days after ascending node on 22 January 2097 at 08:09 in ♉ Taurus 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 4 February 2097 at 07:36 in ♏ Scorpio.

Moon at northern standstill

At 17:18 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠26.991°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2097. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-27.061° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 8 February 2097 at 13:18.

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 27 January 2097 at 19:47 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