Waxing
Gibbous ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 67% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 67% and growing larger. The 9 days young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 9 February 2049 at 15:38.
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 ∠14° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1780"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1780" and ∠1944".
Snow Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2049 after 6 days on 17 February 2049 at 20:47.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 17 February 2049 at 20:47
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 25 February 2049 at 07:36
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 4 March 2049 at 00:11
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 11 March 2049 at 11:26
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 607 / 1560
The Moon is 9 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 607 of Meeus index or 1560 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.46 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 56 minutes. It is 32 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 48 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 21 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠20°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠20°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠39.7°.
Moon before perigee
10 days after point of perigee on 1 February 2049 at 08:51 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 13 February 2049 at 12:40 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 402 753 km
The Moon is 402 753 km (250 259 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 515 km (251 975 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♊ Gemini at 17:32 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 14 days later on 25 February 2049 at 20:27 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 21:45 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠22.719°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-22.575° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 26 February 2049 at 03:09.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 17 February 2049 at 20:47 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.
