Waxing
Gibbous ♌ Leo
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 ♌ Leo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 5 March 2093 at 03:27.
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 ♌ Leo
Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1783"
Lunar disc appears visually 8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1783" and ∠1932".
Worm Moon after 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2093 after 3 days on 13 March 2093 at 04:06.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 13 March 2093 at 04:06
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 20 March 2093 at 04:57
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 27 March 2093 at 03:18
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 3 April 2093 at 23:46
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 1152 / 2105
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 1152 of Meeus index or 2105 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.51 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 12 minutes. It is 42 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 32 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 37 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠43.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠43.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠73.1°.
Moon after apogee
2 days after point of apogee on 6 March 2093 at 14:56 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 March 2093 at 10:04 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 401 950 km
The Moon is 401 950 km (249 760 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 821 km (229 796 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♌ Leo at 06:15 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 22 March 2093 at 12:52 in ♒ Aquarius.
New draconic month
At 06:15 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after northern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 7 March 2093 at 08:10 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.943°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.054° at the point of next southern standstill on 20 March 2093 at 23:15 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 13 March 2093 at 04:06 in ♍ Virgo 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.
