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Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 97% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 97% and growing larger. The 13 days young Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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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 October 2033 at 04:46.
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 ♈ Aries
Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1936".
Beaver Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2033 after 1 day on 6 November 2033 at 20:32.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 6 November 2033 at 20:32
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 13 November 2033 at 20:09
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 22 November 2033 at 01:39
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 29 November 2033 at 15:15
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 418 / 1371
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 418 of Meeus index or 1371 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.76 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 11 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2033. It is 1 hour and 4 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 5 hours and 27 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 36 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠190.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠190.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠217.2°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 23:57. It is 14 days after previous apogee on 22 October 2033 at 03:15 in ♎ Libra. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 12 days, until point of next apogee on 18 November 2033 at 10:41 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 358 102 km
This perigee Moon is 358 102 km (222 514 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 406 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 254 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 4 November 2033 at 16:35 in ♈ Aries. 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 18 November 2033 at 00:01 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 27 October 2033 at 23:48 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.327°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.369° at the point of next northern standstill on 9 November 2033 at 16:57 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 6 November 2033 at 20:32 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.
