Waxing
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 89% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 89% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 14 January 2084 at 18:02.
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 ∠21° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1950".
Wolf Moon after 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2084 after 3 days on 22 January 2084 at 23:15.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 22 January 2084 at 23:15
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 30 January 2084 at 12:42
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 6 February 2084 at 04:53
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 13 February 2084 at 13:28
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 1039 / 1992
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 1039 of Meeus index or 1992 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.48 days
Length of current 1039 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 36 minutes. It is 35 minutes shorter than next lunation 1040 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 8 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 1 minute longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠15°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠15°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠33.6°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon in apogee
Moon is reaching point of apogee on this date at 04:48, this is 12 days after last perigee on 6 January 2084 at 20:08 in ♐ Sagittarius. Lunar orbit is starting to get closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth for 15 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next perigee on 4 February 2084 at 03:46 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 405 803 km
This apogee Moon is 405 803 km (252 154 mi) away from Earth. It is 395 km farther than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 906 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
10 days after its ascending node on 8 January 2084 at 12:22 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 22 January 2084 at 16:11 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
10 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon in northern standstill
At 11:14 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠26.337°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2084. Next 13 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-26.324° in its southern standstill point on 2 February 2084 at 09:12 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 3 days
After 3 days on 22 January 2084 at 23:15 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.