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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 30 November 2060 at 23:11.
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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♊ Gemini later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1968"
Lunar disc appears visually 1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1968" and ∠1948".
Cold Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2060 after 1 day on 7 December 2060 at 14:48.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 7 December 2060 at 14:48
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 14 December 2060 at 17:15
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 22 December 2060 at 22:39
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 30 December 2060 at 09:29
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 753 / 1706
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 753 of Meeus index or 1706 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.77 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 24 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 5 hours and 40 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 23 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠199.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠199.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠228.7°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 09:57. It is 15 days after previous apogee on 21 November 2060 at 01:49 in ♏ Scorpio. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 12 days, until point of next apogee on 18 December 2060 at 13:24 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 359 223 km
This perigee Moon is 359 223 km (223 211 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 285 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 11 133 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
2 days after ascending node on 4 December 2060 at 10:07 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 17 December 2060 at 13:43 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
2 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
10 days since the previous standstill on 25 November 2060 at 22:28 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.046°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.011° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 December 2060 at 20:39 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 7 December 2060 at 14:48 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.
