Waxing
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 83% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 17 December 2091 at 17:29.
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 is passing about ∠11° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 9.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1951".
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2091 after 4 days on 25 December 2091 at 21:59.
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.
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 1137 of Meeus index or 2090 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 43 minutes. It is 1 hour and 43 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 1 minute shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 8 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠20.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠40.9°.
Moon is at apogee at 10:59. It is 12 days after previous perigee on 9 December 2091 at 08:19 in ♐ Sagittarius. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 16 days, until point of next perigee on 6 January 2092 at 12:22 in ♐ Sagittarius.
This apogee Moon is 405 544 km (251 993 mi) away from Earth. It is 136 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 165 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
6 days after descending node on 15 December 2091 at 07:03 in ♒ Aquarius. 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 29 December 2091 at 20:00 in ♌ Leo.
18 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
9 days since the previous standstill on 11 December 2091 at 21:10 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.452°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.486° at the point of next northern standstill on 26 December 2091 at 05:43 in ♋ Cancer.
In 4 days on 25 December 2091 at 21:59 in ♊ Gemini 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.