Waxing
Gibbous ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 86% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 86% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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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 26 October 2085 at 02:34.
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 ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1968"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1968" and ∠1932".
Beaver Moon after 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2085 after 3 days on 1 November 2085 at 19:08.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 1 November 2085 at 19:08
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 9 November 2085 at 08:31
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 17 November 2085 at 08:20
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 24 November 2085 at 10:02
Neap tide
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunation 1061 / 2014
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 1061 of Meeus index or 2014 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 21 minutes. It is 1 hour and 3 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 2 hours and 37 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 26 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠234.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠234.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠271.2°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 23:49. It is 15 days after previous apogee on 14 October 2085 at 00:42 in ♍ Virgo. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 12 days, until point of next apogee on 10 November 2085 at 18:58 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 365 120 km
This perigee Moon is 365 120 km (226 875 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 612 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 5 236 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
6 days after ascending node on 23 October 2085 at 05:04 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 4 November 2085 at 22:57 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
6 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 22 October 2085 at 19:20 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.402°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.345° at the point of next northern standstill on 4 November 2085 at 14:11 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 1 November 2085 at 19:08 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.
