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

Waxing Gibbous in Capricorn

Waxing Gibbous on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 65% and growing larger. Lunar cycle is 9 days young.

Moonrise and moonset

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.

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 24 September 2050 at 02:34.

Harvest Moon after 5 days

Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2050 after 5 days on 30 September 2050 at 17:31.

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 ∠1927"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1927" and ∠1914".

Lunation 627 / 1580

The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 627 of Meeus index or 1580 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.71 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 59 minutes and it is 6 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2050. 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 4 hours and 15 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 48 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠186.6°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠186.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠212°.

Moon before perigee

10 days since point of apogee on 15 September 2050 at 09:55 in ♍ Virgo 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 30 September 2050 at 00:42 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 371 929 km

The Moon is 371 929 km (231 106 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 710 km (222 271 mi).

Moon after ascending node

5 days after ascending node on 20 September 2050 at 06:06 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 3 October 2050 at 00:50 in ♉ Taurus.

Moon after southern standstill

2 days since the last southern standstill on 23 September 2050 at 06:36 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.906° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.840° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 October 2050 at 19:06 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

5 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 5 days

In 5 days on 30 September 2050 at 17:31 in ♈ Aries 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