Waxing
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 78% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 78% and growing larger. The 10 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 3 February 2093 at 07:27.
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 ∠23° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1769"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1945".
Snow Moon after 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2093 after 5 days on 11 February 2093 at 12:18.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 11 February 2093 at 12:18
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 18 February 2093 at 21:32
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 25 February 2093 at 15:05
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 5 March 2093 at 03:27
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 1151 / 2104
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 1151 of Meeus index or 2104 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.49 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 43 minutes. It is 29 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°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
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.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠22.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠22.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠43.9°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 19:24. It is 12 days after previous perigee on 25 January 2093 at 18:37 in ♑ Capricorn. 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 22 February 2093 at 20:31 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 405 386 km
This apogee Moon is 405 386 km (251 895 mi) away from Earth. It is 22 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 323 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
10 days after descending node on 26 January 2093 at 22:34 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 9 February 2093 at 23:58 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
23 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
12 days since the previous standstill on 25 January 2093 at 09:00 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.833°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠20.836° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 February 2093 at 00:49 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 11 February 2093 at 12:18 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.
