Waxing
Gibbous ♊ Gemini
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 ♉ Taurus.
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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 21 December 2050 at 04:15.
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 is entering ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1918"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1918" and ∠1951".
Cold Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2050 after 2 days on 28 December 2050 at 05:15.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 28 December 2050 at 05:15
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 5 January 2051 at 04:29
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 12 January 2051 at 18:58
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 19 January 2051 at 12:38
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 630 / 1583
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 630 of Meeus index or 1583 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.57 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 40 minutes. It is 1 hour and 57 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 56 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 7 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠282.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠282.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠313.4°.
Moon after perigee
4 days after point of perigee on 20 December 2050 at 16:49 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 4 January 2051 at 00:04 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 373 813 km
The Moon is 373 813 km (232 277 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 452 km (251 315 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 24 December 2050 at 02:37 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 7 January 2051 at 05:43 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 14 December 2050 at 02:00 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.822°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠19.815° at the point of next northern standstill on 27 December 2050 at 00:57 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 28 December 2050 at 05:15 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.
