Waxing
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 77% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 77% and growing larger. The 10 days young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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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 10 February 2030 at 11:49.
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 ♊ Gemini
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1790"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1790" and ∠1943".
Snow Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2030 after 4 days on 18 February 2030 at 06:20.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 18 February 2030 at 06:20
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 25 February 2030 at 01:58
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 4 March 2030 at 06:35
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 12 March 2030 at 08:48
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 372 / 1325
The Moon is 10 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 372 of Meeus index or 1325 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.6 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 27 minutes. It is 1 hour and 1 minute shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 43 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 20 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠67.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠67.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠104.1°.
Moon after apogee
3 days after point of apogee on 10 February 2030 at 06:06 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 22 February 2030 at 10:01 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 400 340 km
The Moon is 400 340 km (248 760 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 405 km (228 916 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♊ Gemini at 04:07 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 12 days later on 26 February 2030 at 05:23 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 12 February 2030 at 17:24 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.393°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.278° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 February 2030 at 22:24 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 18 February 2030 at 06:20 in ♌ Leo 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.
