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 96% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 13 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 ♎ Libra

Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.

6 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 days on 25 April 2034 at 11:35.

Flower Moon after 2 days

Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2034 after 2 days on 3 May 2034 at 12:16.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1774"

Lunar disc appears visually 7.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1774" and ∠1904".

Lunation 424 / 1377

The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 424 of Meeus index or 1377 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.32 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 47 minutes and it is 34 minutes longer 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 4 hours and 57 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 12 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠353.9°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠353.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠9°.

Moon before apogee

12 days since point of perigee on 19 April 2034 at 04:07 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 3 May 2034 at 06:24 in ♏ Scorpio.

Distance to Moon 404 005 km

The Moon is 404 005 km (251 037 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 350 km (252 494 mi).

Moon after ascending node

1 day after ascending node on 30 April 2034 at 02:20 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 14 May 2034 at 10:17 in ♈ Aries.

Moon before southern standstill

8 days since the last northern standstill on 22 April 2034 at 20:25 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.212° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.290° at the point of next southern standstill on 7 May 2034 at 09:07 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 2 days

In 2 days on 3 May 2034 at 12:16 in ♏ Scorpio 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