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

Waxing Gibbous in Aquarius

Waxing Gibbous on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 99% and growing larger. Lunar cycle is 14 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 ♒ Aquarius

Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.

7 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 7 days on 21 August 2053 at 04:27.

Sturgeon Moon after 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2053 after 1 day on 29 August 2053 at 07:53.

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 ∠1791"

Lunar disc appears visually 5.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1791" and ∠1900".

Lunation 663 / 1616

The Moon is 14 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 663 of Meeus index or 1616 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.37 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 55 minutes and it is 2 hours and 23 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 3 hours and 49 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 20 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠23.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠23.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠43.5°.

Moon after apogee

3 days since point of apogee on 24 August 2053 at 18:27 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 9 September 2053 at 15:22 in ♌ Leo.

Distance to Moon 400 119 km

The Moon is 400 119 km (248 622 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 934 km (226 759 mi).

Moon before descending node

12 days after ascending node on 15 August 2053 at 17:54 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 30 August 2053 at 03:39 in ♓ Pisces.

Moon after southern standstill

4 days since the last southern standstill on 24 August 2053 at 02:41 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.341° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.322° at the point of next northern standstill on 7 September 2053 at 03:16 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 1 day

In 1 day on 29 August 2053 at 07:53 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