Waxing
Gibbous ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 71% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 71% and growing larger. The 9 days young Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 4 December 2095 at 14:21.
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 ♈ Aries
Moon is passing about ∠10° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1969"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1969" and ∠1948".
Cold Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2095 after 4 days on 11 December 2095 at 06:21.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 11 December 2095 at 06:21
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 18 December 2095 at 15:14
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 26 December 2095 at 18:24
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 2 January 2096 at 23:02
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 1186 / 2139
The Moon is 9 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1186 of Meeus index or 2139 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.73 days
Length of current 1186 lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 30 minutes. It is 2 hours and 10 minutes longer than next lunation 1187 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 46 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 17 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠219.6°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠219.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠255°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before perigee
13 days after point of apogee on 23 November 2095 at 06:05 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 2 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 9 December 2095 at 04:46 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 364 067 km
Moon is 364 067 km (226 221 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 2 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 362 638 km (225 333 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after its descending node on 27 November 2095 at 10:29 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 4 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 10 December 2095 at 14:42 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
23 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
6 days after previous South standstill on 29 November 2095 at 21:18 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-25.668°. Next 6 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠25.653° in the next northern standstill on 12 December 2095 at 17:11 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 4 days
After 4 days on 11 December 2095 at 06:21 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.