Waxing
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 76% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 76% and growing larger. The 10 days young Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 19 December 2061 at 23:58.
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 ∠3° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1934"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1934" and ∠1951".
Cold Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2061 after 4 days on 26 December 2061 at 16:53.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 26 December 2061 at 16:53
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 2 January 2062 at 13:21
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 10 January 2062 at 17:52
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 18 January 2062 at 12:51
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 766 / 1719
The Moon is 10 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 766 of Meeus index or 1719 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.81 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 20 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2061. It is 1 hour and 2 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 6 hours and 36 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 27 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠176.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠176.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠201.9°.
Moon after apogee
10 days after point of apogee on 12 December 2061 at 07:27 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 16 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 8 January 2062 at 09:05 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 370 559 km
The Moon is 370 559 km (230 255 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 16 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 473 km (252 571 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 20 December 2061 at 15:02 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 2 January 2062 at 00:30 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
1 day 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
9 days since the previous standstill on 12 December 2061 at 21:05 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.385°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.396° at the point of next northern standstill on 26 December 2061 at 10:29 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 26 December 2061 at 16:53 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.
