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Moon* ♌ Leo
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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 ♋ Cancer.
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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 14 January 2019 at 06:45.
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 ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1961"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1961" and ∠1950".
Wolf Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2019 after 1 day on 21 January 2019 at 05:16.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 21 January 2019 at 05:16
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 27 January 2019 at 21:10
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 4 February 2019 at 21:04
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 12 February 2019 at 22:26
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 235 / 1188
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 235 of Meeus index or 1188 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.82 days
Length of current 235 lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 35 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2019. It is 35 minutes longer than next lunation 236 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 6 hours and 51 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 12 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠149.4°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠149.4°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠175.6°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before perigee
11 days after point of apogee on 9 January 2019 at 04:29 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next perigee on 21 January 2019 at 19:58 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 365 587 km
Moon is 365 587 km (227 165 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next day until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 357 345 km (222 044 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 22:48 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from South to North. Moon will follow the northern part of its orbit for the next 13 days to meet descending node on 3 February 2019 at 06:35 in ♑ Capricorn.
New draconic month
At 22:48 on this date the Moon is completing its previous draconic month and is entering the new one.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day after previous North standstill on 19 January 2019 at 23:20 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠21.544°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-21.547° in the next southern standstill on 2 February 2019 at 00:48 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 1 day
After 1 day on 21 January 2019 at 05:16 in ♌ Leo, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.