Waxing
Gibbous ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 92% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 92% and growing larger. The 12 days young Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 12 December 2059 at 04:50.
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 ∠21° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1938"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1938" and ∠1950".
Cold Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2059 after 2 days on 19 December 2059 at 02:11.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 19 December 2059 at 02:11
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 26 December 2059 at 21:17
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 3 January 2060 at 16:40
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 10 January 2060 at 12:52
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 741 / 1694
The Moon is 12 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 741 of Meeus index or 1694 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.62 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 51 minutes. It is 2 hours and 9 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 2 hours and 7 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 56 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠262.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠262.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠297.9°.
Moon before perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 14 December 2059 at 10:07 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 day, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 18 December 2059 at 01:25 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 369 832 km
The Moon is 369 832 km (229 803 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 889 km (226 110 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♉ Taurus at 05:03 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 30 December 2059 at 07:45 in ♏ Scorpio.
New draconic month
At 05:03 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 6 December 2059 at 22:40 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.188°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.159° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 December 2059 at 20:09 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 19 December 2059 at 02:11 in ♊ Gemini 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.
