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Moon ♌ Leo
Moon phase for
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 ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 days on 1 February 2039 at 04:45.
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 ♋ Cancer
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♌ Leo later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1826"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1826" and ∠1945".
Snow Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2039 after 1 day on 9 February 2039 at 03:39.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 9 February 2039 at 03:39
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 16 February 2039 at 02:36
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 23 February 2039 at 03:18
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 3 March 2039 at 02:15
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 483 / 1436
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 483 of Meeus index or 1436 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.57 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 41 minutes. It is 1 hour and 1 minute 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 57 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 6 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠51.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠51.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠83.5°.
Moon after apogee
5 days after point of apogee on 2 February 2039 at 01:38 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 February 2039 at 17:30 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 392 621 km
The Moon is 392 621 km (243 963 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 370 230 km (230 050 mi).
Moon after ascending node
2 days after ascending node on 5 February 2039 at 05:55 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 18 February 2039 at 09:34 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
2 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 6 February 2039 at 03:54 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.931°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.002° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 February 2039 at 06:19 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 9 February 2039 at 03:39 in ♌ Leo 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.
