Waxing
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 82% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 82% and growing larger. The 10 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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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 22 February 2075 at 20:00.
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 ∠18° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1778"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1778" and ∠1937".
Worm Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2075 after 4 days on 2 March 2075 at 20:06.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 2 March 2075 at 20:06
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 9 March 2075 at 20:17
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 16 March 2075 at 19:25
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 24 March 2075 at 16:45
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 929 / 1882
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 929 of Meeus index or 1882 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.53 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 44 minutes. It is 47 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 same as the mean
The length of the current synodic month is equal to the mean synodic month length. It is %hours_to_shortest% and %minutes_to_shortest% longer than the 21st century's shortest and %hours_to_longest% and %minutes_to_longest% shorter than the 21st century's longest synodic months.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠46.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠46.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠76.5°.
Moon after apogee
2 days after point of apogee on 24 February 2075 at 02:31 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 March 2075 at 13:32 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 403 045 km
The Moon is 403 045 km (250 441 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 370 071 km (229 951 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 22:09 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 12 March 2075 at 03:46 in ♑ Capricorn.
New draconic month
At 22:09 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon at northern standstill
At 00:14 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠21.916°. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-22.019° at the point of next standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 11 March 2075 at 10:20.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 2 March 2075 at 20:06 in ♍ Virgo 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.
