Waxing
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 87% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 87% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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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 19 January 2089 at 19:47.
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 ∠22° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1964"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1964" and ∠1949".
Wolf Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2089 after 2 days on 26 January 2089 at 11:25.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 26 January 2089 at 11:25
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 2 February 2089 at 10:23
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 10 February 2089 at 15:16
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 18 February 2089 at 07:15
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 1101 / 2054
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 1101 of Meeus index or 2054 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.79 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 58 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2089. It is 1 hour and 50 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 6 hours and 14 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 49 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠185.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠185.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠211.9°.
Moon before apogee
12 days after point of apogee on 11 January 2089 at 04:23 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 25 January 2089 at 19:36 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 364 999 km
The Moon is 364 999 km (226 800 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 298 km (222 015 mi).
Moon after descending node
4 days after descending node on 19 January 2089 at 04:30 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 31 January 2089 at 14:33 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
18 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 16:28 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠18.817°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2089. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-18.740° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 5 February 2089 at 19:19.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 26 January 2089 at 11:25 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.
