Waxing
Gibbous ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 85% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 85% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
Moon phases for next 7 days
Tuesday Tue
Wednesday Wed
Thursday Thu
Friday Fri
Saturday Sat
Sunday Sun
Monday Mon
Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 31 October 2014 at 02:48.
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 ♓ Pisces
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♈ Aries later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1960"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1960" and ∠1935".
Beaver Moon after 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2014 after 3 days on 6 November 2014 at 22:23.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 6 November 2014 at 22:23
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 14 November 2014 at 15:16
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 22 November 2014 at 12:32
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 29 November 2014 at 10:06
Neap tide
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunation 183 / 1136
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 183 of Meeus index or 1136 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.61 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 36 minutes. It is 1 hour and 32 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 52 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 11 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠252.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠252.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠289.3°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 00:21. It is 15 days after previous apogee on 18 October 2014 at 06:05 in ♌ Leo. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 11 days, until point of next apogee on 15 November 2014 at 01:56 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 367 871 km
This perigee Moon is 367 871 km (228 584 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 363 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 2 485 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
11 days after ascending node on 23 October 2014 at 00:46 in ♎ Libra. 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 5 November 2014 at 03:13 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
11 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 28 October 2014 at 01:03 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.539°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.575° at the point of next northern standstill on 9 November 2014 at 23:12 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 6 November 2014 at 22:23 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.
