Waxing
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 96% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 96% and growing larger. The 13 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 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 ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1913"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1913" and ∠1949".
Wolf Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2043 after 1 day 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 13 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
Length of current 532 lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 14 minutes. It is 2 hours and 12 minutes longer than next lunation 533 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 30 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 33 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠269.3°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠269.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠303°. 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°).
Moon after perigee
3 days after point of perigee on 19 January 2043 at 20:02 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 9 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 1 February 2043 at 17:22 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 374 631 km
Moon is 374 631 km (232 785 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 9 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 270 km (251 202 mi).
Moon after ascending node
6 days after its ascending node on 17 January 2043 at 04:57 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 6 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 30 January 2043 at 09:53 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
6 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day after previous North standstill on 22 January 2043 at 21:28 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.367°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.451° in the next southern standstill on 6 February 2043 at 04:21 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 1 day
After 1 day on 25 January 2043 at 06:56 in ♌ Leo, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.