Waxing
Gibbous ♈ Aries
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 ♓ Pisces.
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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 1 November 2022 at 06:37.
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 ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1919"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1919" and ∠1935".
Beaver Moon after 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2022 after 3 days on 8 November 2022 at 11:02.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 8 November 2022 at 11:02
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 16 November 2022 at 13:27
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 23 November 2022 at 22:57
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 30 November 2022 at 14:36
Neap tide
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunation 282 / 1235
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 282 of Meeus index or 1235 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.51 days
Length of current 282 lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 9 minutes. It is 49 minutes longer than next lunation 283 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 36 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 34 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠299.9°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠299.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠325.5°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 29 October 2022 at 14:48 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 9 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 14 November 2022 at 06:41 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 373 463 km
Moon is 373 463 km (232 059 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 9 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 924 km (251 608 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after its descending node on 26 October 2022 at 06:30 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 8 November 2022 at 06:08 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
23 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
5 days after previous South standstill on 30 October 2022 at 01:04 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-27.500°. Next 8 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠27.497° in the next northern standstill on 12 November 2022 at 14:17 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 3 days
After 3 days on 8 November 2022 at 11:02 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.