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

Waxing Gibbous in Pisces

Waxing Gibbous on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 93% and growing larger. Lunar cycle is 12 days young.

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.

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♓ Pisces

Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 12 October 2032 at 03:48.

Hunter Moon after 2 days

Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2032 after 2 days on 18 October 2032 at 18:58.

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 ∠1969"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1969" and ∠1925".

Lunation 405 / 1358

The Moon is 12 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 405 of Meeus index or 1358 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.68 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 19 minutes and it is 1 hour and 11 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 3 hours and 35 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 28 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠215.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠215.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠248.6°.

Moon at perigee

Moon is at perigee at 21:27 about 15 days since last apogee on 1 October 2032 at 03:03 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 28 October 2032 at 18:22 in ♌ Leo.

Distance to Moon 361 921 km

This perigee Moon is 361 921 km (224 887 mi) away from Earth. It is 587 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 8 435 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.

Moon before descending node

10 days after ascending node on 6 October 2032 at 02:03 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 19 October 2032 at 02:27 in ♉ Taurus.

Moon before northern standstill

6 days since the last southern standstill on 10 October 2032 at 03:40 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.064° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.051° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 October 2032 at 20:01 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

10 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 18 October 2032 at 18:58 in ♈ Aries 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