Waxing
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 93% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 93% and growing larger. The 12 days young Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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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 30 November 2022 at 14:36.
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 ∠13° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1839"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1839" and ∠1947".
Cold Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2022 after 2 days on 8 December 2022 at 04:08.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 8 December 2022 at 04:08
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 16 December 2022 at 08:56
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 23 December 2022 at 10:17
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 30 December 2022 at 01:21
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 283 / 1236
The Moon is 12 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 283 of Meeus index or 1236 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.47 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 20 minutes. It is 44 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 24 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 45 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠325.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠325.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠344.3°.
Moon before perigee
9 days after point of perigee on 26 November 2022 at 01:30 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 12 December 2022 at 00:30 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 389 669 km
The Moon is 389 669 km (242 129 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 869 km (252 195 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♉ Taurus at 12:39 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 20 December 2022 at 01:36 in ♏ Scorpio.
New draconic month
At 12:39 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 26 November 2022 at 08:28 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.471°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.432° at the point of next northern standstill on 9 December 2022 at 21:22 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 8 December 2022 at 04:08 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.
