Waxing
Gibbous ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 83% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 83% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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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 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 ♈ Aries
Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1944".
Beaver Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2099 after 4 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
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 1235 / 2188
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 1235 of Meeus index or 2188 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.49 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 40 minutes. It is 2 hours and 7 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 4 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 5 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠27.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠27.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠49.8°.
Moon after apogee
1 day after point of apogee on 22 November 2099 at 17:25 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 15 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 8 December 2099 at 17:50 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 405 407 km
The Moon is 405 407 km (251 908 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 15 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 610 km (227 801 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 21 November 2099 at 23:18 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 5 December 2099 at 21:04 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 15 November 2099 at 04:28 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.455°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.380° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 November 2099 at 16:41 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 27 November 2099 at 21:22 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.
