Waxing
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 90% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 90% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 2 February 2020 at 01:42.
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 ∠10° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1886"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1886" and ∠1946".
Snow Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2020 after 2 days on 9 February 2020 at 07:33.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 9 February 2020 at 07:33
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 15 February 2020 at 22:17
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 23 February 2020 at 15:32
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 2 March 2020 at 19:57
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 248 / 1201
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 248 of Meeus index or 1201 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.74 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 50 minutes. It is 6 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 6 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 57 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠120.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠120.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠152.6°.
Moon before apogee
7 days after point of apogee on 29 January 2020 at 21:28 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 February 2020 at 20:31 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 379 987 km
The Moon is 379 987 km (236 113 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 464 km (223 982 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 08:59 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 12 days later on 19 February 2020 at 00:12 in ♑ Capricorn.
New draconic month
At 08:59 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon at northern standstill
At 16:10 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠23.268°. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-23.319° at the point of next standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 19 February 2020 at 08:58.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 9 February 2020 at 07:33 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.
