Waxing
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 93% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 93% and growing larger. The 12 days young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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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 4 January 2047 at 05:31.
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 ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1821"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1821" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2047 after 2 days on 12 January 2047 at 01:21.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 12 January 2047 at 01:21
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 18 January 2047 at 22:32
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 26 January 2047 at 01:44
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 3 February 2047 at 03:09
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 581 / 1534
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 581 of Meeus index or 1534 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.63 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 5 minutes. It is 1 hour and 37 minutes 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 2 hours and 21 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 42 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠60.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠60.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠96.2°.
Moon after apogee
5 days after point of apogee on 4 January 2047 at 09:26 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 16 January 2047 at 21:10 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 393 565 km
The Moon is 393 565 km (244 550 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 325 km (229 488 mi).
Moon before descending node
11 days after ascending node on 28 December 2046 at 21:09 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 12 January 2047 at 07:29 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
11 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 16:36 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠26.065°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2047. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-26.072° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 22 January 2047 at 15:26.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 12 January 2047 at 01:21 in ♋ Cancer 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.
