Waxing
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 91% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 91% and growing larger. The 12 days young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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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 18 January 2043 at 09:05.
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 ♊ Gemini
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1934"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1934" and ∠1950".
Wolf Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2043 after 2 days on 25 January 2043 at 06:56.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 25 January 2043 at 06:56
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 2 February 2043 at 04:14
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 9 February 2043 at 21:07
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 16 February 2043 at 17:00
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 532 / 1485
The Moon is 12 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 532 of Meeus index or 1485 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 14 minutes. It is 2 hours and 12 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 1 hour and 30 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 33 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠269.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠269.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠303°.
Moon after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 19 January 2043 at 20:02 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 1 February 2043 at 17:22 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 370 570 km
The Moon is 370 570 km (230 262 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 270 km (251 202 mi).
Moon after ascending node
5 days after ascending node on 17 January 2043 at 04:57 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 30 January 2043 at 09:53 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
5 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 21:28 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠28.367°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2043. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-28.451° at the point of next standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 6 February 2043 at 04:21.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 25 January 2043 at 06:56 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.
