Waxing
Gibbous ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 89% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 89% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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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 9 January 2022 at 18:11.
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 passing about ∠16° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2022 after 3 days on 17 January 2022 at 23:49.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 17 January 2022 at 23:49
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 25 January 2022 at 13:41
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 1 February 2022 at 05:46
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 8 February 2022 at 13:50
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 272 / 1225
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 272 of Meeus index or 1225 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.47 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 13 minutes. It is 36 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 32 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 38 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠13.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠13.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠32°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 09:27. It is 12 days after previous perigee on 1 January 2022 at 23:00 in ♐ Sagittarius. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 15 days, until point of next perigee on 30 January 2022 at 07:09 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 405 806 km
This apogee Moon is 405 806 km (252 156 mi) away from Earth. It is 398 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 903 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 13 January 2022 at 04:19 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 27 January 2022 at 06:14 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 2 January 2022 at 13:35 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.304°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠26.310° at the point of next northern standstill on 16 January 2022 at 10:16 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 17 January 2022 at 23:49 in ♋ Cancer 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.
