Waxing
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 91% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 91% and growing larger. The 12 days young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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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 14 January 2065 at 13:19.
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 ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1811"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1811" and ∠1950".
Wolf Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2065 after 2 days on 22 January 2065 at 09:53.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 22 January 2065 at 09:53
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 29 January 2065 at 07:38
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 5 February 2065 at 10:02
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 13 February 2065 at 10:50
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 804 / 1757
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 804 of Meeus index or 1757 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.62 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 47 minutes. It is 1 hour and 26 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 3 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠57.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠57.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠92.7°.
Moon after apogee
4 days after point of apogee on 14 January 2065 at 21:51 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 27 January 2065 at 15:26 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 395 809 km
The Moon is 395 809 km (245 944 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 668 km (229 701 mi).
Moon before descending node
11 days after ascending node on 8 January 2065 at 05:38 in ♒ Aquarius. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 22 January 2065 at 16:09 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
11 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 06:26 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠26.834°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2065. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-26.842° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 1 February 2065 at 07:20.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 22 January 2065 at 09:53 in ♌ Leo 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.
