Waxing
Gibbous ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 84% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 84% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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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 9 November 2024 at 05:56.
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 is entering ♈ Aries
Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1971"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1939".
Beaver Moon after 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2024 after 3 days on 15 November 2024 at 21:29.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 15 November 2024 at 21:29
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 23 November 2024 at 01:28
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 1 December 2024 at 06:21
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 8 December 2024 at 15:27
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 307 / 1260
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 307 of Meeus index or 1260 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.73 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 34 minutes. It is 1 hour and 29 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 50 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 13 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠204.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠204.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠235.3°.
Moon before apogee
13 days after point of apogee on 29 October 2024 at 22:50 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 14 November 2024 at 11:18 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 363 623 km
The Moon is 363 623 km (225 945 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 110 km (223 762 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♓ Pisces at 15:59 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 25 November 2024 at 21:31 in ♍ Virgo.
New draconic month
At 15:59 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 5 November 2024 at 17:18 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.578°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.522° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 November 2024 at 10:22 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 15 November 2024 at 21:29 in ♉ Taurus 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.
