Waxing
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
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 ♉ Taurus.
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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 1 January 2058 at 18:30.
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 ∠4° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1835"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1835" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2058 after 6 days on 9 January 2058 at 20:39.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 9 January 2058 at 20:39
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 17 January 2058 at 19:43
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 24 January 2058 at 12:14
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 31 January 2058 at 10:28
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 717 / 1670
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 717 of Meeus index or 1670 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
Length of current 717 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 52 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2058. It is 10 minutes longer than next lunation 718 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 52 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 17 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠355.4°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠355.4°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠10.9°. 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 before apogee
8 days after point of perigee on 26 December 2057 at 07:44 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 9 January 2058 at 06:58 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 390 678 km
Moon is 390 678 km (242 756 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 5 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 377 km (252 511 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after its descending node on 25 December 2057 at 08:50 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 4 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 7 January 2058 at 16:37 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
23 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
7 days after previous South standstill on 26 December 2057 at 12:09 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-24.515°. Next 5 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠24.506° in the next northern standstill on 9 January 2058 at 03:44 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 6 days
After 6 days on 9 January 2058 at 20:39 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.