Waxing
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 85% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 85% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 25 January 2007 at 23:02.
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 ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1900"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1900" and ∠1948".
Snow Moon after 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2007 after 3 days on 2 February 2007 at 05:45.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 2 February 2007 at 05:45
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 10 February 2007 at 09:51
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 17 February 2007 at 16:14
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 24 February 2007 at 07:56
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 87 / 1040
The Moon is 11 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 87 of Meeus index or 1040 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.51 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 14 minutes. It is 1 hour and 46 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 30 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 39 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠308.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠308.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠331.4°.
Moon after perigee
6 days after point of perigee on 22 January 2007 at 12:24 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 7 February 2007 at 12:39 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 377 277 km
The Moon is 377 277 km (234 429 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 990 km (251 649 mi).
Moon before descending node
6 days after ascending node on 22 January 2007 at 13:00 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 4 February 2007 at 22:44 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
6 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 18:19 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠28.501°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-28.568° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 13 February 2007 at 07:33.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 2 February 2007 at 05:45 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.
