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Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 99% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99% and growing larger. The 14 days young Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 days on 20 November 2012 at 14:31.
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 ∠24° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1771"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1771" and ∠1945".
Beaver Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2012 after 1 day on 28 November 2012 at 14:46.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 28 November 2012 at 14:46
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 6 December 2012 at 15:32
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 13 December 2012 at 08:42
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 20 December 2012 at 05:19
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 159 / 1112
The Moon is 14 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 159 of Meeus index or 1112 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.44 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 34 minutes. It is 28 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 and 10 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 59 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠351.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠351.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠6.8°.
Moon before perigee
13 days after point of perigee on 14 November 2012 at 10:21 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 day, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 28 November 2012 at 19:35 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 404 771 km
The Moon is 404 771 km (251 513 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 366 km (252 504 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♉ Taurus at 17:05 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 14 days later on 11 December 2012 at 15:57 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 15 November 2012 at 16:10 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.914°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.924° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 November 2012 at 14:33 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 28 November 2012 at 14:46 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.
