Waxing
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 78% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 78% and growing larger. The 10 days young Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 6 December 2073 at 09:33.
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 ∠22° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1769"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1949".
Cold Moon after 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2073 after 5 days on 14 December 2073 at 13:49.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 14 December 2073 at 13:49
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 22 December 2073 at 00:06
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 28 December 2073 at 16:55
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 5 January 2074 at 06:18
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 914 / 1867
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 914 of Meeus index or 1867 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.49 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 43 minutes. It is 1 hour and 59 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 1 hour and 1 minute shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 8 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠22.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠22.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠43.1°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 22:16. It is 12 days after previous perigee on 27 November 2073 at 21:03 in ♏ Scorpio. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 16 days, until point of next perigee on 25 December 2073 at 23:45 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 405 427 km
This apogee Moon is 405 427 km (251 921 mi) away from Earth. It is 19 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 282 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
5 days after descending node on 3 December 2073 at 22:40 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 18 December 2073 at 11:14 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 1 December 2073 at 10:11 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.206°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.261° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 December 2073 at 22:12 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 14 December 2073 at 13:49 in ♊ Gemini 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.
