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

Waxing Gibbous in Pisces

Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 98% 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 ♓ Pisces

Moon is passing about ∠10° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.

5 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 14 September 2040 at 02:07.

Harvest Moon after 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2040 after 1 day on 20 September 2040 at 17:43.

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 ∠1948"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1948" and ∠1911".

Lunation 503 / 1456

The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 503 of Meeus index or 1456 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.59 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 12 minutes and it is 42 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 28 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 35 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠226.5°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠226.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠261.6°.

Moon after perigee

1 day since point of perigee on 18 September 2040 at 06:43 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 30 September 2040 at 02:50 in ♋ Cancer.

Distance to Moon 367 907 km

The Moon is 367 907 km (228 607 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 658 km (251 443 mi).

Moon before ascending node

7 days after descending node on 12 September 2040 at 06:11 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 24 September 2040 at 23:04 in ♉ Taurus.

Moon after southern standstill

4 days since the last southern standstill on 15 September 2040 at 06:36 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.529° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.630° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 September 2040 at 10:20 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

21 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 1 day

In 1 day on 20 September 2040 at 17:43 in ♓ Pisces 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