Waxing
Gibbous ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 88% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 88% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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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 27 December 2025 at 19:10.
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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♊ Gemini later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2026 after 2 days on 3 January 2026 at 10:03.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 3 January 2026 at 10:03
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 10 January 2026 at 15:48
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 18 January 2026 at 19:52
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 26 January 2026 at 04:47
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 321 / 1274
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 321 of Meeus index or 1274 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.76 days
Length of current 321 lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 9 minutes. It is 2 hours longer than next lunation 322 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 25 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 38 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠207°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠207°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠239°. 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 before perigee
14 days after point of apogee on 17 December 2025 at 06:09 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next perigee on 1 January 2026 at 21:43 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 363 302 km
Moon is 363 302 km (225 745 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next day until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 360 348 km (223 910 mi).
Moon after ascending node
5 days after its ascending node on 25 December 2025 at 22:03 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 6 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 7 January 2026 at 11:22 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
5 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
11 days after previous South standstill on 19 December 2025 at 23:18 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.233°. Next day the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.265° in the next northern standstill on 2 January 2026 at 08:20 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 2 days
After 2 days on 3 January 2026 at 10:03 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.