Waxing Gibbous on

Moon phase on 28 November 2020 Saturday is Waxing Gibbous, 13 days young Moon is in Taurus.

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Lunar calendar 2020 | November 2020

Waxing Gibbous phase
Waxing Gibbous phase
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.

Waxing Gibbous 97% illuminated

Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 97% and growing larger. The 13 days young Moon is in ♉ Taurus.

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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 22 November 2020 at 04:45.

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 ♉ Taurus

Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1770"

Lunar disc appears visually 9.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1945".

Beaver Moon after 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2020 after 1 day on 30 November 2020 at 09:30.

Upcoming main Moon phases

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 258 / 1211

The Moon is 13 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 258 of Meeus index or 1211 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.46 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 9 minutes. It is 1 hour and 35 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 1 hour and 35 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 34 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit position on

True anomaly ∠12.4°

At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠12.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠30.1°.

Moon after apogee

1 day after point of apogee on 27 November 2020 at 00:29 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 12 December 2020 at 20:42 in ♏ Scorpio.

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Distance to Moon 404 977 km

The Moon is 404 977 km (251 641 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 14 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 777 km (224 798 mi).

Moon before ascending node

11 days after descending node on 17 November 2020 at 00:07 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 1 December 2020 at 07:46 in ♊ Gemini.

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Draconic month

24 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.

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Moon before northern standstill

10 days since the previous standstill on 18 November 2020 at 11:27 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.856°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.882° at the point of next northern standstill on 3 December 2020 at 01:22 in ♋ Cancer.

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Syzygy in 1 day

In 1 day on 30 November 2020 at 09:30 in ♊ Gemini 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.

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