Waxing
Gibbous ♌ Leo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 95% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 95% and growing larger. The 12 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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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 6 February 2063 at 13:37.
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 ♋ Cancer
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♌ Leo later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1970"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1944".
Snow Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2063 after 1 day on 13 February 2063 at 05:48.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 13 February 2063 at 05:48
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 20 February 2063 at 03:07
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 28 February 2063 at 07:38
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 8 March 2063 at 01:06
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 780 / 1733
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 780 of Meeus index or 1733 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.8 days
Length of current 780 lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 15 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2063. It is 2 hours and 3 minutes longer than next lunation 781 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 6 hours and 31 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 32 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠179.8°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠179.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠204.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before perigee
12 days after point of apogee on 29 January 2063 at 13:00 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next perigee on 12 February 2063 at 19:32 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 363 796 km
Moon is 363 796 km (226 052 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next day until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 356 965 km (221 808 mi).
Moon before descending node
10 days after its ascending node on 1 February 2063 at 08:33 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 2 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 14 February 2063 at 11:10 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
10 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
2 days after previous North standstill on 9 February 2063 at 10:17 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.472°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.506° in the next southern standstill on 22 February 2063 at 05:09 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 1 day
After 1 day on 13 February 2063 at 05:48 in ♌ Leo, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.