Waxing
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 89% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 89% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♌ Leo.
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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 10 March 2098 at 16:01.
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 ∠16° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1969"
Lunar disc appears visually 2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1969" and ∠1929".
Worm Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2098 after 2 days on 17 March 2098 at 07:43.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 17 March 2098 at 07:43
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 24 March 2098 at 18:26
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 1 April 2098 at 19:47
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 8 April 2098 at 22:56
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 1214 / 2167
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 1214 of Meeus index or 2167 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.66 days
Length of current 1214 lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 45 minutes. It is 3 hours longer than next lunation 1215 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 1 minute longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 2 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠225.5°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠225.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠260.4°. 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 in perigee
Moon is reaching point of perigee on this date at 23:15, this is 15 days after last apogee on 27 February 2098 at 00:05 in ♑ Capricorn. Lunar orbit is starting to get wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth for 12 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next apogee on 26 March 2098 at 18:28 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 363 603 km
This perigee Moon is 363 603 km (225 932 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 095 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 6 753 km farther than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
8 days after its ascending node on 6 March 2098 at 10:58 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 4 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 19 March 2098 at 05:21 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
8 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
2 days after previous North standstill on 11 March 2098 at 15:13 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.231°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.293° in the next southern standstill on 24 March 2098 at 17:32 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 2 days
After 2 days on 17 March 2098 at 07:43 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.