Waxing
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 89% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 89% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 20 November 2042 at 14:31.
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 ∠24° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1944".
Beaver Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2042 after 2 days on 27 November 2042 at 06:06.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 27 November 2042 at 06:06
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 4 December 2042 at 09:19
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 12 December 2042 at 14:29
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 20 December 2042 at 00:28
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 530 / 1483
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 530 of Meeus index or 1483 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.75 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 1 minute. It is 1 hour and 37 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 17 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 46 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠201.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠201.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠232°.
Moon before apogee
13 days after point of apogee on 10 November 2042 at 12:15 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 25 November 2042 at 22:40 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 363 343 km
The Moon is 363 343 km (225 771 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 651 km (223 477 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♈ Aries at 01:03 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 12 days later on 7 December 2042 at 05:37 in ♎ Libra.
New draconic month
At 01:03 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 16 November 2042 at 08:09 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.390°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.344° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 November 2042 at 03:21 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 27 November 2042 at 06:06 in ♊ Gemini 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.
