Waxing Gibbous Moon
Waxing Gibbous MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waxing Gibbous in Cancer

Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 64% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 days young.

Moonrise and moonset

The 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 phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♋ Cancer

Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 18 March 2062 at 05:58.

Worm Moon after 5 days

Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2062 after 5 days on 25 March 2062 at 03:35.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1971"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1927".

Lunation 769 / 1722

The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 769 of Meeus index or 1722 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.54 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 4 minutes and it is 2 hours and 58 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit 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 20 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 43 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠268.5°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠268.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠301.6°.

Moon at perigee

Moon is at perigee at 16:28 about 14 days since last apogee on 4 March 2062 at 17:42 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next apogee on 1 April 2062 at 14:06 in ♑ Capricorn.

Distance to Moon 369 624 km

This perigee Moon is 369 624 km (229 674 mi) away from Earth. It is 7 116 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 732 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.

Moon before descending node

7 days after ascending node on 11 March 2062 at 23:34 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 24 March 2062 at 21:44 in ♍ Virgo.

Moon after northern standstill

1 day since the last northern standstill on 18 March 2062 at 10:24 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.705° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.700° at the point of next southern standstill on 31 March 2062 at 23:35 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

7 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 5 days

In 5 days on 25 March 2062 at 03:35 in ♎ Libra 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov