Waxing
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 83% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 83% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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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 17 December 2007 at 10:17.
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 ∠9° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1972"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1950".
Cold Moon after 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2007 after 3 days on 24 December 2007 at 01:16.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 24 December 2007 at 01:16
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 31 December 2007 at 07:51
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 8 January 2008 at 11:37
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 15 January 2008 at 19:46
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 98 / 1051
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 98 of Meeus index or 1051 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.75 days
Length of current 98 lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 57 minutes. It is 1 hour and 50 minutes longer than next lunation 99 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 13 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 50 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠209.6°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠209.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠242.4°. 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
13 days after point of apogee on 6 December 2007 at 16:54 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next perigee on 22 December 2007 at 10:11 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 363 473 km
Moon is 363 473 km (225 852 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next day until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 360 817 km (224 201 mi).
Moon after ascending node
4 days after its ascending node on 15 December 2007 at 13:15 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 7 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 28 December 2007 at 02:57 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
4 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
10 days after previous South standstill on 10 December 2007 at 09:41 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-27.906°. Next 3 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠27.918° in the next northern standstill on 23 December 2007 at 14:26 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 3 days
After 3 days on 24 December 2007 at 01:16 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.