Waxing
Gibbous ♊ Gemini
Moon phase on 12 January 2041 Saturday is Waxing Gibbous, 10 days young Moon is in Taurus.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 80% and growing larger. The 10 days young Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 9 January 2041 at 10:06.
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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♊ Gemini later.
Lunar disc appears visually 5.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1840" and ∠1951".
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2041 after 4 days on 17 January 2041 at 07:11.
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 10 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 507 of Meeus index or 1460 from Brown series.
Length of current 507 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 35 minutes. It is 39 minutes longer than next lunation 508 length.
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 9 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
This lunation true anomaly is ∠342.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠358.5°. 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°).
8 days after point of perigee on 3 January 2041 at 19:39 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 18 January 2041 at 23:16 in ♌ Leo.
Moon is 389 457 km (241 997 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 6 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 419 km (252 537 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♉ Taurus at 00:01 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from South to North. Moon will follow the northern part of its orbit for the next 14 days to meet descending node on 26 January 2041 at 15:09 in ♏ Scorpio.
At 00:01 on this date the Moon is completing its previous draconic month and is entering the new one.
10 days after previous South standstill on 2 January 2041 at 11:44 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-26.763°. Next 3 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠26.766° in the next northern standstill on 15 January 2041 at 15:57 in ♋ Cancer.
After 4 days on 17 January 2041 at 07:11 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.