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

Waxing Gibbous in Capricorn

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 ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

6 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 days on 25 July 2042 at 05:01.

Sturgeon Moon after 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2042 after 1 day on 1 August 2042 at 17:33.

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 ∠1883"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1883" and ∠1890".

Lunation 526 / 1479

The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 526 of Meeus index or 1479 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.51 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 9 minutes and it is 2 hours and 40 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 35 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 34 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠88.8°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠88.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠123.3°.

Moon before perigee

7 days since point of apogee on 23 July 2042 at 20:11 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 4 August 2042 at 18:09 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 380 727 km

The Moon is 380 727 km (236 573 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 543 km (227 138 mi).

Moon before ascending node

7 days after descending node on 24 July 2042 at 06:34 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 6 August 2042 at 14:42 in ♈ Aries.

Moon after southern standstill

1 day since the last southern standstill on 30 July 2042 at 02:39 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.160° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.226° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 August 2042 at 21:49 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

20 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 1 day

In 1 day on 1 August 2042 at 17:33 in ♒ Aquarius 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