Waxing
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 65% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 65% and growing larger. The 9 days young Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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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 25 December 2055 at 22:29.
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 passing about ∠23° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2056 after 6 days on 2 January 2056 at 22:05.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 2 January 2056 at 22:05
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 9 January 2056 at 23:13
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 16 January 2056 at 22:10
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 24 January 2056 at 20:21
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 692 / 1645
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 692 of Meeus index or 1645 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.58 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 55 minutes. It is 1 hour and 54 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 1 hour and 11 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 52 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠45.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠45.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠75.8°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 05:00. It is 11 days after previous perigee on 15 December 2055 at 10:52 in ♏ Scorpio. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 14 days, until point of next perigee on 10 January 2056 at 16:48 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 404 566 km
This apogee Moon is 404 566 km (251 386 mi) away from Earth. It is 842 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 143 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
6 days after descending node on 20 December 2055 at 21:00 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 4 January 2056 at 07:42 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
19 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 19 December 2055 at 10:14 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.183°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.189° at the point of next northern standstill on 2 January 2056 at 21:00 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 2 January 2056 at 22:05 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.
