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 95% 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 passing about ∠16° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 29 June 2028 at 12:10.

Buck Moon after 2 days

Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2028 after 2 days on 6 July 2028 at 18:11.

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 ∠1864"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1864" and ∠1887".

Lunation 352 / 1305

The Moon is 12 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 352 of Meeus index or 1305 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.36 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 34 minutes and it is 52 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 shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 10 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 59 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠308.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠308.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠330.4°.

Moon before apogee

8 days since point of perigee on 26 June 2028 at 04:14 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 11 July 2028 at 22:26 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 384 474 km

The Moon is 384 474 km (238 901 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 945 km (251 621 mi).

Moon before ascending node

10 days after descending node on 24 June 2028 at 06:42 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 7 July 2028 at 09:34 in ♑ Capricorn.

Moon at southern standstill

At 18:46 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-25.933°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠25.940° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 19 July 2028 at 07:49.

Draconic month

24 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 2 days

In 2 days on 6 July 2028 at 18:11 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