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

Waxing Gibbous in Sagittarius

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 ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.

5 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 8 July 2049 at 07:10.

Buck Moon after 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2049 after 1 day on 15 July 2049 at 02:29.

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 ∠1960"

Lunar disc appears visually 3.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1960" and ∠1888".

Lunation 612 / 1565

The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 612 of Meeus index or 1565 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.64 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 17 minutes and it is 6 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2049. 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 2 hours and 33 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 30 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠162.9°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠162.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠185.8°.

Moon before perigee

11 days since point of apogee on 2 July 2049 at 01:01 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 July 2049 at 07:18 in ♑ Capricorn.

Distance to Moon 365 721 km

The Moon is 365 721 km (227 248 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 060 km (221 867 mi).

Moon after ascending node

1 day after ascending node on 12 July 2049 at 03:19 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 24 July 2049 at 21:01 in ♊ Gemini.

Moon after southern standstill

1 day since the last southern standstill on 12 July 2049 at 19:01 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.045° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.002° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 July 2049 at 17:25 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

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

Syzygy in 1 day

In 1 day on 15 July 2049 at 02:29 in ♑ Capricorn 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