Waxing Gibbous Moon
Waxing Gibbous MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waxing Gibbous in Taurus

Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 98% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 13 days young.

Moonrise and moonset

The 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 phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♉ Taurus

Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.

5 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 12 November 2078 at 19:04.

Beaver Moon after 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2078 after 1 day on 19 November 2078 at 12:52.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1971"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1942".

Lunation 975 / 1928

The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 975 of Meeus index or 1928 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.8 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 12 minutes and it is 30 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2078. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Lunation length longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 6 hours and 28 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 35 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠172.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠172.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠196.6°.

Moon before perigee

12 days since point of apogee on 5 November 2078 at 14:46 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 November 2078 at 08:57 in ♉ Taurus.

Distance to Moon 363 618 km

The Moon is 363 618 km (225 942 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 690 km (221 637 mi).

Moon in ascending node

Moon is in ascending node in ♉ Taurus at 09:52 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 1 December 2078 at 18:16 in ♏ Scorpio.

Moon before northern standstill

9 days since the last southern standstill on 9 November 2078 at 06:39 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.622° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.596° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 November 2078 at 03:20 in ♋ Cancer.

New draconic month

At 09:52 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.

Syzygy in 1 day

In 1 day on 19 November 2078 at 12:52 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov