Waxing
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 69% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 69% and growing larger. The 9 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 10 March 2022 at 10:45.
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 ∠14° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1772"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1772" and ∠1931".
Worm Moon after 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2022 after 5 days on 18 March 2022 at 07:17.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 18 March 2022 at 07:17
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 25 March 2022 at 05:37
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 1 April 2022 at 06:24
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 9 April 2022 at 06:47
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 274 / 1227
The Moon is 9 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 274 of Meeus index or 1227 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.53 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 50 minutes. It is 1 hour and 14 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 6 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 57 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠56.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠56.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠89.8°.
Moon after apogee
1 day after point of apogee on 10 March 2022 at 23:05 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 March 2022 at 23:28 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 404 386 km
The Moon is 404 386 km (251 274 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 764 km (229 761 mi).
Moon after ascending node
4 days after ascending node on 8 March 2022 at 08:22 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 22 March 2022 at 08:12 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
4 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 00:14 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠26.674°. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-26.787° at the point of next standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 25 March 2022 at 11:58.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 18 March 2022 at 07:17 in ♍ Virgo 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.
