Waxing
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 70% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 70% and growing larger. The 9 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 25 February 2034 at 16:34.
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 is entering ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1923"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1923" and ∠1937".
Worm Moon after 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2034 after 5 days on 5 March 2034 at 02:10.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 5 March 2034 at 02:10
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 13 March 2034 at 06:45
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 20 March 2034 at 10:14
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 27 March 2034 at 01:18
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 422 / 1375
The Moon is 9 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 422 of Meeus index or 1375 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.46 days
Length of current 422 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 4 minutes. It is 1 hour and 53 minutes longer than next lunation 423 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 40 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 29 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠317.3°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠317.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠337.6°. 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 after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 21 February 2034 at 15:30 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 9 March 2034 at 16:05 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 372 648 km
Moon is 372 648 km (231 553 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 10 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 268 km (251 822 mi).
Moon after descending node
6 days after its descending node on 21 February 2034 at 05:47 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 7 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 6 March 2034 at 14:21 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
20 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon in northern standstill
At 06:42 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠18.195°. Next 14 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-18.147° in its southern standstill point on 13 March 2034 at 19:10 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 5 days
After 5 days on 5 March 2034 at 02:10 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.