Waxing
Gibbous ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 66% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 66% and growing larger. The 9 days young Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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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 19 November 2099 at 17:17.
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 ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1773"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1773" and ∠1943".
Beaver Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2099 after 6 days on 27 November 2099 at 21:22.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 27 November 2099 at 21:22
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 5 December 2099 at 04:46
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 11 December 2099 at 23:09
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 19 December 2099 at 14:22
Neap tide
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunation 1235 / 2188
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 1235 of Meeus index or 2188 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.49 days
Length of current 1235 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 40 minutes. It is 2 hours and 7 minutes shorter than next lunation 1236 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 4 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 5 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠27.7°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠27.7°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠49.8°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of perigee on 10 November 2099 at 19:35 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next apogee on 22 November 2099 at 17:25 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 404 324 km
Moon is 404 324 km (251 235 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next day until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 988 km (251 648 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♓ Pisces at 23:18 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from South to North. Moon will follow the northern part of its orbit for the next 14 days to meet descending node on 5 December 2099 at 21:04 in ♍ Virgo.
New draconic month
At 23:18 on this date the Moon is completing its previous draconic month and is entering the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
6 days after previous South standstill on 15 November 2099 at 04:28 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.455°. Next 8 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.380° in the next northern standstill on 29 November 2099 at 16:41 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 6 days
After 6 days on 27 November 2099 at 21:22 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.