Waxing
Gibbous ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 66% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 66% and growing larger. The 9 days young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 6 February 2014 at 19:22.
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 ∠9° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1802"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1802" and ∠1945".
Snow Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2014 after 6 days on 14 February 2014 at 23:53.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 14 February 2014 at 23:53
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 22 February 2014 at 17:15
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 1 March 2014 at 08:00
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 8 March 2014 at 13:27
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 174 / 1127
The Moon is 9 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 174 of Meeus index or 1127 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 21 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2014. It is 24 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 23 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 46 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠8.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠8.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠25.1°.
Moon before perigee
9 days after point of perigee on 30 January 2014 at 09:58 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 12 February 2014 at 05:09 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 397 791 km
The Moon is 397 791 km (247 176 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 232 km (252 421 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after descending node on 5 February 2014 at 12:41 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 20 February 2014 at 03:28 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
15 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 27 January 2014 at 16:31 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.396°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠19.306° at the point of next northern standstill on 9 February 2014 at 15:21 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 14 February 2014 at 23:53 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.
