Waxing
Gibbous ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 65% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 65% and growing larger. The 9 days young Moon is in ♈ Aries.
Moon phases for next 7 days
Saturday Sat
Sunday Sun
Monday Mon
Tuesday Tue
Wednesday Wed
Thursday Thu
Friday Fri
Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 12 December 2097 at 00:19.
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 ∠1855"
Lunar disc appears visually 5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1855" and ∠1949".
Cold Moon after 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2097 after 5 days on 19 December 2097 at 00:04.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 19 December 2097 at 00:04
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 25 December 2097 at 15:20
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 2 January 2098 at 14:32
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 10 January 2098 at 16:58
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 1211 / 2164
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 1211 of Meeus index or 2164 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.8 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 6 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2097. It is 16 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 6 hours and 22 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 41 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠145.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠145.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠172.3°.
Moon before apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 7 December 2097 at 05:05 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 December 2097 at 17:43 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 386 474 km
The Moon is 386 474 km (240 144 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 517 km (222 151 mi).
Moon before ascending node
12 days after descending node on 30 November 2097 at 14:46 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 15 December 2097 at 04:28 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
25 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 5 December 2097 at 17:37 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.873°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.860° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 December 2097 at 11:51 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 19 December 2097 at 00:04 in ♋ Cancer 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.
