Waxing
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 90% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 90% and growing larger. The 12 days young Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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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 30 November 2003 at 17:16.
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 ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1778"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1778" and ∠1947".
Cold Moon after 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2003 after 3 days on 8 December 2003 at 20:37.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 8 December 2003 at 20:37
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 16 December 2003 at 17:42
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 23 December 2003 at 09:43
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 30 December 2003 at 10:03
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 48 / 1001
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 48 of Meeus index or 1001 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 44 minutes. It is 38 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the 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 2 hours shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 9 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠359.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠359.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠15.5°.
Moon before perigee
11 days after point of perigee on 23 November 2003 at 23:14 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 7 December 2003 at 12:05 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 403 206 km
The Moon is 403 206 km (250 541 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 281 km (252 451 mi).
Moon before ascending node
12 days after descending node on 23 November 2003 at 06:02 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 6 December 2003 at 16:00 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
26 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 26 November 2003 at 09:16 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.092°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.057° at the point of next northern standstill on 10 December 2003 at 15:56 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 8 December 2003 at 20:37 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.
