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Moon* ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 98% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 98% and growing larger. The 13 days young Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 12 November 2059 at 20:45.
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 ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1946"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1946" and ∠1941".
Beaver Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2059 after 1 day on 19 November 2059 at 13:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 19 November 2059 at 13:09
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 26 November 2059 at 23:42
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 5 December 2059 at 01:49
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 12 December 2059 at 04:50
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 740 / 1693
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 740 of Meeus index or 1693 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.69 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 38 minutes. It is 1 hour and 47 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 3 hours and 54 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 9 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠225.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠225.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠262.2°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 17 November 2059 at 04:17 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 28 November 2059 at 22:30 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 368 335 km
The Moon is 368 335 km (228 873 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 737 km (251 492 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♉ Taurus at 20:56 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 3 December 2059 at 01:20 in ♏ Scorpio.
New draconic month
At 20:56 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 9 November 2059 at 16:49 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.235°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.219° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 November 2059 at 10:36 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 19 November 2059 at 13:09 in ♉ Taurus 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.
