Waxing
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 81% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 81% and growing larger. The 10 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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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 22 February 2094 at 02:36.
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 ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1780"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1780" and ∠1938".
Worm Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2094 after 4 days on 2 March 2094 at 07:35.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 2 March 2094 at 07:35
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 10 March 2094 at 00:22
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 16 March 2094 at 15:44
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 23 March 2094 at 20:05
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 1164 / 2117
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 1164 of Meeus index or 2117 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.42 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 1 minute. It is 8 minutes longer 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 2 hours and 43 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 26 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠7.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠7.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠24.6°.
Moon before perigee
10 days after point of perigee on 14 February 2094 at 18:39 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 27 February 2094 at 15:03 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 402 601 km
The Moon is 402 601 km (250 165 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 118 km (252 350 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 12:58 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 11 March 2094 at 18:24 in ♑ Capricorn.
New draconic month
At 12:58 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon at northern standstill
At 05:34 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠22.582°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-22.707° at the point of next standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 11 March 2094 at 14:07.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 2 March 2094 at 07:35 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.
