Waxing
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 90% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 90% and growing larger. The 12 days young Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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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 11 November 2070 at 03:20.
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 ♈ Aries
Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1906"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1906" and ∠1940".
Beaver Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2070 after 2 days on 18 November 2070 at 05:40.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 18 November 2070 at 05:40
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 24 November 2070 at 20:20
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 2 December 2070 at 16:53
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 10 December 2070 at 20:32
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 876 / 1829
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 876 of Meeus index or 1829 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.76 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 11 minutes. It is 1 hour and 11 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 5 hours and 27 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 36 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠134.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠134.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠163.2°.
Moon before apogee
8 days after point of apogee on 7 November 2070 at 02:03 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 November 2070 at 07:55 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 376 124 km
The Moon is 376 124 km (233 713 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 729 km (222 904 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♈ Aries at 11:41 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 12 days later on 28 November 2070 at 03:19 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 6 November 2070 at 16:41 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.443°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.488° at the point of next northern standstill on 20 November 2070 at 04:59 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 18 November 2070 at 05:40 in ♉ Taurus 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.
