Waxing
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
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 ♈ Aries.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 6 November 2073 at 15:42.
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 ∠25° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1939".
Beaver Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2073 after 2 days on 14 November 2073 at 19:55.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 14 November 2073 at 19:55
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 22 November 2073 at 14:15
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 29 November 2073 at 05:12
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 6 December 2073 at 09:33
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 913 / 1866
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 913 of Meeus index or 1866 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.42 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 59 minutes. It is 1 hour and 44 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 45 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 24 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠6.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠6.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠22.5°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 10:04. It is 12 days after previous perigee on 30 October 2073 at 10:23 in ♏ Scorpio. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 15 days, until point of next perigee on 27 November 2073 at 21:03 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 406 195 km
This apogee Moon is 406 195 km (252 398 mi) away from Earth. It is 787 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 514 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
5 days after descending node on 6 November 2073 at 19:59 in ♒ Aquarius. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 21 November 2073 at 10:04 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
18 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, 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 3 November 2073 at 23:06 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.020°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.145° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 November 2073 at 15:10 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 14 November 2073 at 19:55 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.
