Waxing
Gibbous ♌ Leo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 95% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 95% and growing larger. The 12 days young Moon is in ♌ Leo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 20 February 2002 at 12:02.
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.
Moon in ♌ Leo
Moon is passing about ∠10° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1949"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1949" and ∠1938".
Snow Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2002 after 1 day on 27 February 2002 at 09:17.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 27 February 2002 at 09:17
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 6 March 2002 at 01:25
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 14 March 2002 at 02:03
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 22 March 2002 at 02:28
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.
Lunation 26 / 979
The Moon is 12 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 26 of Meeus index or 979 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.77 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 22 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2002. It is 1 hour and 3 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the 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 5 hours and 38 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 25 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠155.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠155.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠180.3°.
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of apogee on 14 February 2002 at 22:22 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 27 February 2002 at 19:47 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 367 843 km
The Moon is 367 843 km (228 567 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 898 km (221 766 mi).
Moon after ascending node
3 days after ascending node on 22 February 2002 at 06:26 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 6 March 2002 at 16:19 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
3 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 23 February 2002 at 11:48 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.418°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.510° at the point of next southern standstill on 8 March 2002 at 01:59 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 27 February 2002 at 09:17 in ♍ Virgo 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.
