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 69% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 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 is entering ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 28 July 2058 at 16:19.

Sturgeon Moon after 4 days

Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2058 after 4 days on 4 August 2058 at 09:37.

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 ∠1912"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1912" and ∠1890".

Lunation 724 / 1677

The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 724 of Meeus index or 1677 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.64 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 23 minutes and it is 9 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2058. 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 39 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 24 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠173.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠173.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠196°.

Moon before perigee

9 days since point of apogee on 21 July 2058 at 10:15 in ♌ Leo 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 2058 at 05:22 in ♒ Aquarius.

Distance to Moon 374 828 km

The Moon is 374 828 km (232 907 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 996 km (221 827 mi).

Moon before descending node

13 days after ascending node on 16 July 2058 at 23:56 in ♊ Gemini 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 31 July 2058 at 11:07 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Moon before southern standstill

11 days since the last northern standstill on 19 July 2058 at 03:57 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.278° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.332° at the point of next southern standstill on 2 August 2058 at 07:06 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 4 days

In 4 days on 4 August 2058 at 09:37 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