Waxing
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 87% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 87% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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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 24 January 2018 at 22:20.
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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1971"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1948".
Wolf Moon after 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2018 after 3 days on 31 January 2018 at 13:27.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 31 January 2018 at 13:27
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 7 February 2018 at 15:54
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 15 February 2018 at 21:05
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 23 February 2018 at 08:09
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 223 / 1176
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 223 of Meeus index or 1176 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.78 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 48 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2018. It is 2 hours and 42 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 7 hours and 3 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 59 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠198.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠198.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠227.1°.
Moon before apogee
13 days after point of apogee on 15 January 2018 at 02:10 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 30 January 2018 at 09:54 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 363 755 km
The Moon is 363 755 km (226 027 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 995 km (223 069 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after descending node on 18 January 2018 at 14:28 in ♒ Aquarius. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 31 January 2018 at 18:46 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
24 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
12 days since the previous standstill on 15 January 2018 at 16:28 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.048°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠20.027° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 January 2018 at 11:32 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 31 January 2018 at 13:27 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.
