Waxing
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase on 16 February 2038 Tuesday is Waxing Gibbous, 11 days young Moon is in Cancer.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 87% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 12 February 2038 at 09:30.
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 passing about ∠16° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 3.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1873" and ∠1942".
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2038 after 3 days on 19 February 2038 at 16:09.
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.
The Moon is 11 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 471 of Meeus index or 1424 from Brown series.
Length of current 471 lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 23 minutes. It is 5 minutes shorter than next lunation 472 length.
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 39 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 24 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠117.1°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠149.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
7 days after point of apogee on 9 February 2038 at 10:00 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 4 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 21 February 2038 at 08:05 in ♍ Virgo.
Moon is 382 623 km (237 751 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 4 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 360 960 km (224 290 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 17:30 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from South to North. Moon will follow the northern part of its orbit for the next 12 days to meet descending node on 1 March 2038 at 08:52 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 17:30 on this date the Moon is completing its previous draconic month and is entering the new one.
At 04:53 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠22.250°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-22.311° in its southern standstill point on 28 February 2038 at 20:34 in ♑ Capricorn.
After 3 days on 19 February 2038 at 16:09 in ♌ Leo, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.