Waxing
Gibbous ♌ Leo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 77% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 77% and growing larger. The 10 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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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 8 March 2063 at 01:06.
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 passing about ∠22° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1966"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1932".
Worm Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2063 after 4 days on 14 March 2063 at 16:14.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 14 March 2063 at 16:14
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 21 March 2063 at 20:16
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 30 March 2063 at 00:50
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 6 April 2063 at 09:18
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 781 / 1734
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 781 of Meeus index or 1734 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.72 days
Length of current 781 lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 12 minutes. It is 3 hours and 10 minutes longer than next lunation 782 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 28 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 35 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠204.9°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠204.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠234.9°. 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 25 February 2063 at 16:30 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 2 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 13 March 2063 at 05:45 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 364 679 km
Moon is 364 679 km (226 601 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 2 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 360 132 km (223 776 mi).
Moon before descending node
9 days after its ascending node on 28 February 2063 at 14:15 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 13 March 2063 at 22:26 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
9 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
1 day after previous North standstill on 8 March 2063 at 17:58 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.509°. Next 11 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.488° in the next southern standstill on 21 March 2063 at 12:26 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 4 days
After 4 days on 14 March 2063 at 16:14 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.