Waxing
Gibbous ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 77% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 77% and growing larger. The 10 days young Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 17 November 2007 at 22:32.
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 is entering ♈ Aries
Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1946"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1946" and ∠1942".
Beaver Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2007 after 4 days on 24 November 2007 at 14:30.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 24 November 2007 at 14:30
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 1 December 2007 at 12:44
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 9 December 2007 at 17:40
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 17 December 2007 at 10:17
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 97 / 1050
The Moon is 10 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 97 of Meeus index or 1050 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.78 days
Length of current 97 lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 37 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2007. It is 40 minutes longer than next lunation 98 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 53 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 10 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠183.8°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠183.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠209.6°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before perigee
10 days after point of apogee on 9 November 2007 at 12:31 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 3 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 24 November 2007 at 00:12 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 368 347 km
Moon is 368 347 km (228 880 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 3 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 357 196 km (221 951 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after its ascending node on 18 November 2007 at 12:46 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 10 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 30 November 2007 at 23:09 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
1 day after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
7 days after previous South standstill on 13 November 2007 at 04:37 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.006°. Next 5 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠27.958° in the next northern standstill on 26 November 2007 at 03:58 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 4 days
After 4 days on 24 November 2007 at 14:30 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.