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

Waxing Gibbous in Libra

Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 64% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 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 is entering ♎ Libra

Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 4 June 2033 at 23:39.

Strawberry Moon after 6 days

Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2033 after 6 days on 12 June 2033 at 23:19.

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 ∠1768"

Lunar disc appears visually 6.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1891".

Lunation 413 / 1366

The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 413 of Meeus index or 1366 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.4 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 30 minutes and it is 1 hour and 36 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit 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 3 hours and 14 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 55 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠46°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠46° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠74.1°.

Moon at apogee

Moon is at apogee at 10:13 about 11 days since last perigee on 25 May 2033 at 13:01 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next perigee on 21 June 2033 at 01:28 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 404 291 km

This apogee Moon is 404 291 km (251 215 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 117 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 418 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.

Moon before ascending node

12 days after descending node on 25 May 2033 at 05:37 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 7 June 2033 at 22:45 in ♎ Libra.

Moon before southern standstill

7 days since the last northern standstill on 29 May 2033 at 17:10 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.697° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.723° at the point of next southern standstill on 13 June 2033 at 04:17 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

25 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 6 days

In 6 days on 12 June 2033 at 23:19 in ♐ Sagittarius 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