Waxing Gibbous Moon
Waxing Gibbous MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waxing Gibbous in Sagittarius

Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 92% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 12 days young.

Moonrise and moonset

The 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 phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.

4 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 16 July 2013 at 03:18.

Buck Moon after 2 days

Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2013 after 2 days on 22 July 2013 at 18:15.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1972"

Lunar disc appears visually 4.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1888".

Lunation 167 / 1120

The Moon is 12 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 167 of Meeus index or 1120 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.61 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 36 minutes and it is 51 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Lunation length longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 52 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 11 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠191.6°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠191.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠216.9°.

Moon before perigee

13 days since point of apogee on 7 July 2013 at 00:36 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 July 2013 at 20:27 in ♑ Capricorn.

Distance to Moon 363 484 km

The Moon is 363 484 km (225 858 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 402 km (222 701 mi).

Moon after ascending node

2 days after ascending node on 17 July 2013 at 14:58 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 30 July 2013 at 05:50 in ♉ Taurus.

Moon at southern standstill

At 03:12 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-20.097°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠20.025° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 2 August 2013 at 09:24.

Draconic month

2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 2 days

In 2 days on 22 July 2013 at 18:15 in ♑ Capricorn 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov