Waxing
Gibbous ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 90% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 90% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 3 November 2038 at 21:24.
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 ∠9° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1786"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1786" and ∠1937".
Beaver Moon after 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2038 after 3 days on 11 November 2038 at 22:27.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 11 November 2038 at 22:27
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 19 November 2038 at 22:10
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 26 November 2038 at 13:47
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 3 December 2038 at 12:46
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 480 / 1433
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 480 of Meeus index or 1433 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.41 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 54 minutes. It is 1 hour and 21 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 2 hours and 50 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 19 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠355.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠355.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠10.8°.
Moon before perigee
11 days after point of perigee on 28 October 2038 at 10:19 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 11 November 2038 at 08:59 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 401 405 km
The Moon is 401 405 km (249 422 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 419 km (252 537 mi).
Moon before ascending node
7 days after descending node on 1 November 2038 at 00:41 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 15 November 2038 at 11:00 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
20 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 1 November 2038 at 16:10 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.732°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.829° at the point of next northern standstill on 16 November 2038 at 07:17 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 11 November 2038 at 22:27 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.
