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Moon* ♌ Leo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 99% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99% and growing larger. The 13 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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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 24 January 2056 at 20:21.
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 ♋ Cancer
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♌ Leo later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1876"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1876" and ∠1947".
Snow Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2056 after 1 day on 1 February 2056 at 12:36.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 1 February 2056 at 12:36
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 8 February 2056 at 07:01
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 15 February 2056 at 14:00
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 23 February 2056 at 17:11
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 693 / 1646
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 693 of Meeus index or 1646 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.66 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 49 minutes. It is 1 hour and 4 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 3 hours and 5 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 58 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠75.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠75.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠113.6°.
Moon before apogee
7 days after point of apogee on 24 January 2056 at 02:22 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 4 February 2056 at 23:51 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 382 157 km
The Moon is 382 157 km (237 461 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 040 km (228 068 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 16:41 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 13 February 2056 at 13:45 in ♑ Capricorn.
New draconic month
At 16:41 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 30 January 2056 at 06:21 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.178°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.191° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 February 2056 at 02:37 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 1 February 2056 at 12:36 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.
