Waxing
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
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 ♈ Aries.
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 days on 7 November 2054 at 08:34.
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 ♈ Aries
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♉ Taurus later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1810"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1810" and ∠1939".
Beaver Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2054 after 1 day on 15 November 2054 at 08:49.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 15 November 2054 at 08:49
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 22 November 2054 at 10:22
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 29 November 2054 at 08:33
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 7 December 2054 at 06:07
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 678 / 1631
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 678 of Meeus index or 1631 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.52 days
Length of current 678 lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 32 minutes. It is 2 hours and 46 minutes shorter than next lunation 679 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 12 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 57 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠44°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠44°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠72.4°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon after apogee
4 days after point of apogee on 8 November 2054 at 19:52 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 23 November 2054 at 15:48 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 396 114 km
Moon is 396 114 km (246 134 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 10 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 370 009 km (229 913 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after its descending node on 8 November 2054 at 04:08 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 8 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 21 November 2054 at 22:10 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
18 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
9 days after previous South standstill on 4 November 2054 at 07:53 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-19.520°. Next 5 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠19.632° in the next northern standstill on 18 November 2054 at 17:11 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 1 day
After 1 day on 15 November 2054 at 08:49 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.