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

Waxing Gibbous in Scorpio

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 is entering ♏ Scorpio

Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.

6 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 days on 7 May 2060 at 09:19.

Flower Moon after 2 days

Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2060 after 2 days on 15 May 2060 at 13:39.

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 ∠1770"

Lunar disc appears visually 7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1898".

Lunation 746 / 1699

The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 746 of Meeus index or 1699 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.34 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 13 minutes and it is 22 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2060. 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 4 hours and 31 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 38 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠13.7°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠13.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠31.3°.

Moon after apogee

1 day since point of apogee on 12 May 2060 at 04:06 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 27 May 2060 at 20:38 in ♉ Taurus.

Distance to Moon 405 059 km

The Moon is 405 059 km (251 692 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 14 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 061 km (224 974 mi).

Moon before descending node

13 days after ascending node on 30 April 2060 at 05:58 in ♉ Taurus 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 14 May 2060 at 03:03 in ♏ Scorpio.

Moon before southern standstill

9 days since the last northern standstill on 4 May 2060 at 05:51 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.728° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.700° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 May 2060 at 20:56 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

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

Syzygy in 2 days

In 2 days on 15 May 2060 at 13:39 in ♏ Scorpio 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