Waxing
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 77% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 77% and growing larger. The 10 days young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 1 February 2085 at 14:36.
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 ∠19° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1799"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1799" and ∠1946".
Snow Moon after 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2085 after 5 days on 9 February 2085 at 18:24.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 9 February 2085 at 18:24
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 17 February 2085 at 14:47
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 24 February 2085 at 06:32
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 3 March 2085 at 07:16
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 1052 / 2005
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 1052 of Meeus index or 2005 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
Length of current 1052 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 26 minutes. It is 21 minutes longer than next lunation 1053 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 19 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 51 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠0.9°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠0.9°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠16.7°. 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 before apogee
9 days after point of perigee on 25 January 2085 at 18:46 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 3 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 8 February 2085 at 04:48 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 398 381 km
Moon is 398 381 km (247 542 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 3 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 318 km (252 474 mi).
Moon before descending node
11 days after its ascending node on 24 January 2085 at 03:41 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 6 February 2085 at 07:10 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
11 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 12:06 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠24.854°. Next 14 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-24.747° in its southern standstill point on 19 February 2085 at 01:45 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 5 days
After 5 days on 9 February 2085 at 18:24 in ♌ Leo, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.