Waxing Gibbous Moon
Waxing Gibbous MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waxing Gibbous in Aries

Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 92% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 12 days young.

Moonrise and moonset

The 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 phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♈ Aries

Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 5 November 2095 at 04:09.

Beaver Moon after 2 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2095 after 2 days on 11 November 2095 at 19:05.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1972"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1938".

Lunation 1185 / 2138

The Moon is 12 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1185 of Meeus index or 2138 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.77 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 22 minutes and it is 52 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2095. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit 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 5 hours and 38 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 25 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠192.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠192.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠219.6°.

Moon before perigee

13 days since point of apogee on 26 October 2095 at 21:48 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 November 2095 at 21:09 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 363 479 km

The Moon is 363 479 km (225 855 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 236 km (222 598 mi).

Moon before ascending node

9 days after descending node on 31 October 2095 at 04:49 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 13 November 2095 at 03:43 in ♊ Gemini.

Moon before northern standstill

6 days since the last southern standstill on 2 November 2095 at 15:39 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.619° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.649° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 November 2095 at 06:31 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

23 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 2 days

In 2 days on 11 November 2095 at 19:05 in ♉ Taurus 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov