Waxing
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 83% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 83% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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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 19 February 2021 at 18:47.
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 ∠17° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1824"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1824" and ∠1939".
Snow Moon after 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2021 after 3 days on 27 February 2021 at 08:17.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 27 February 2021 at 08:17
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 6 March 2021 at 01:30
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 13 March 2021 at 10:21
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 21 March 2021 at 14:40
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 261 / 1214
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 261 of Meeus index or 1214 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
Length of current 261 lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 15 minutes. It is 55 minutes shorter than next lunation 262 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 31 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 32 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠87°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠87°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠124.3°. 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 after apogee
5 days after point of apogee on 18 February 2021 at 10:22 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 2 March 2021 at 05:19 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 392 962 km
Moon is 392 962 km (244 175 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 6 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 365 422 km (227 063 mi).
Moon after ascending node
2 days after its ascending node on 21 February 2021 at 01:44 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 10 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 6 March 2021 at 00:56 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
2 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon in northern standstill
At 00:12 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠25.056°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-25.161° in its southern standstill point on 7 March 2021 at 20:45 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 3 days
After 3 days on 27 February 2021 at 08:17 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.