Waxing
Gibbous ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 93% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 93% and growing larger. The 12 days young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
Moon phases for next 7 days
Thursday Thu
Friday Fri
Saturday Sat
Sunday Sun
Monday Mon
Tuesday Tue
Wednesday Wed
Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 1 January 2077 at 17:27.
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 ∠16° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1854"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1854" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2077 after 2 days on 9 January 2077 at 04:37.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 9 January 2077 at 04:37
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 17 January 2077 at 09:09
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 24 January 2077 at 12:45
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 31 January 2077 at 03:35
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 952 / 1905
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 952 of Meeus index or 1905 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.49 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 52 minutes. It is 1 hour and 31 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 52 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 17 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠319.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠319.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠339.5°.
Moon before perigee
8 days after point of perigee on 28 December 2076 at 13:46 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 13 January 2077 at 15:13 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 386 613 km
The Moon is 386 613 km (240 230 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 574 km (252 012 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♊ Gemini at 14:25 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 21 January 2077 at 03:21 in ♐ Sagittarius.
New draconic month
At 14:25 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 26 December 2076 at 10:19 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.094°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠25.079° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 January 2077 at 11:32 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 9 January 2077 at 04:37 in ♋ Cancer 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.
