Waxing
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 95% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 95% and growing larger. The 12 days young Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 10 November 2013 at 05:57.
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 ♈ Aries
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♉ Taurus later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1850"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1850" and ∠1940".
Beaver Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2013 after 2 days on 17 November 2013 at 15:16.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 17 November 2013 at 15:16
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 25 November 2013 at 19:28
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 3 December 2013 at 00:22
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 9 December 2013 at 15:12
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 171 / 1124
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 171 of Meeus index or 1124 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.48 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 32 minutes. It is 40 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 1 hour and 12 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 57 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠315°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠315°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠336.4°.
Moon before perigee
9 days after point of perigee on 6 November 2013 at 09:28 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 22 November 2013 at 09:50 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 387 457 km
The Moon is 387 457 km (240 755 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 446 km (251 932 mi).
Moon before descending node
12 days after ascending node on 3 November 2013 at 06:52 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 16 November 2013 at 05:30 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 6 November 2013 at 06:43 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.511°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.534° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 November 2013 at 17:18 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 17 November 2013 at 15:16 in ♉ Taurus 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.
