Waxing
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 85% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 85% and growing larger. The 11 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 9 February 2079 at 03:11.
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 ∠8° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1953"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1953" and ∠1943".
Snow Moon after 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2079 after 3 days on 15 February 2079 at 23:45.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 15 February 2079 at 23:45
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 23 February 2079 at 19:23
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 3 March 2079 at 13:49
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 10 March 2079 at 10:37
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 978 / 1931
The Moon is 11 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 978 of Meeus index or 1931 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 13 minutes. It is 2 hours and 32 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 29 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 34 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠261.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠261.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠296.6°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 11 February 2079 at 08:13 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 23 February 2079 at 18:10 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 366 963 km
The Moon is 366 963 km (228 020 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 236 km (251 181 mi).
Moon after ascending node
4 days after ascending node on 7 February 2079 at 23:17 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 21 February 2079 at 02:05 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
4 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 07:40 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠27.715°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-27.818° at the point of next standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 26 February 2079 at 08:11.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 15 February 2079 at 23:45 in ♌ Leo 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.
