Waxing
Gibbous ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 71% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 71% 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 10 January 2060 at 12:52.
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 ∠17° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1947"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1947" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2060 after 5 days on 17 January 2060 at 17:14.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 17 January 2060 at 17:14
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 25 January 2060 at 19:14
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 2 February 2060 at 05:22
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 8 February 2060 at 21:41
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 742 / 1695
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 742 of Meeus index or 1695 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.53 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 42 minutes. It is 1 hour and 53 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 7 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠297.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠297.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠323.8°.
Moon after perigee
4 days after point of perigee on 8 January 2060 at 01:42 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 23 January 2060 at 16:37 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 368 134 km
The Moon is 368 134 km (228 748 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 707 km (251 473 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♉ Taurus at 08:04 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 26 January 2060 at 11:07 in ♏ Scorpio.
New draconic month
At 08:04 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 3 January 2060 at 06:16 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.156°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.171° at the point of next northern standstill on 16 January 2060 at 03:50 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 17 January 2060 at 17:14 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.
