Waxing
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 95% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 95% and growing larger. The 13 days young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 31 December 2030 at 13:36.
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 ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing about ∠21° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2031 after 2 days on 8 January 2031 at 18:26.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 8 January 2031 at 18:26
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 16 January 2031 at 12:47
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 23 January 2031 at 04:31
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 30 January 2031 at 07:43
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 383 / 1336
The Moon is 13 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 383 of Meeus index or 1336 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.46 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 59 minutes. It is 19 minutes 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 45 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 24 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠5.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠5.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠21.6°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 11:00. It is 13 days after previous perigee on 24 December 2030 at 10:09 in ♐ Sagittarius. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 15 days, until point of next perigee on 21 January 2031 at 21:41 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 406 169 km
This apogee Moon is 406 169 km (252 382 mi) away from Earth. It is 761 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 540 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 5 January 2031 at 06:37 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 19 January 2031 at 08:51 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 at northern standstill
At 05:22 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠21.889°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2031. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-21.824° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 20 January 2031 at 05:10.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 8 January 2031 at 18:26 in ♋ Cancer 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.
