Waxing Gibbous Moon
Waxing Gibbous MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waxing Gibbous in Cancer

Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 73% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 days young.

Moonrise and moonset

The 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 phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♋ Cancer

Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 4 March 2028 at 09:02.

Worm Moon after 4 days

Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2028 after 4 days on 11 March 2028 at 01:06.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1942"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1942" and ∠1933".

Lunation 348 / 1301

The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 348 of Meeus index or 1301 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.75 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 54 minutes and it is 2 hours and 38 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit 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 5 hours and 10 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 53 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠186.5°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠186.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠212.1°.

Moon before perigee

10 days since point of apogee on 24 February 2028 at 16:26 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 March 2028 at 08:23 in ♍ Virgo.

Distance to Moon 369 174 km

The Moon is 369 174 km (229 394 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 599 km (222 202 mi).

Moon before descending node

12 days after ascending node on 22 February 2028 at 13:11 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 7 March 2028 at 18:06 in ♋ Cancer.

Moon after northern standstill

1 day since the last northern standstill on 4 March 2028 at 21:13 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.467° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.380° at the point of next southern standstill on 17 March 2028 at 10:25 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 4 days

In 4 days on 11 March 2028 at 01:06 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov