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

Waxing Gibbous in Pisces

Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 98% 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 ♓ Pisces

Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♈ Aries later.

5 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 2 October 2060 at 20:41.

Hunter Moon after 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2060 after 1 day on 9 October 2060 at 18:41.

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 ∠1952"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1952" and ∠1921".

Lunation 751 / 1704

The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 751 of Meeus index or 1704 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.73 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 32 minutes and it is 1 hour and 18 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 48 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 15 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠149.6°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠149.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠174.6°.

Moon before perigee

10 days since point of apogee on 27 September 2060 at 17:42 in ♏ Scorpio 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 10 October 2060 at 10:18 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 367 202 km

The Moon is 367 202 km (228 169 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 605 km (222 205 mi).

Moon before ascending node

11 days after descending node on 26 September 2060 at 21:59 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 10 October 2060 at 13:33 in ♈ Aries.

Moon after southern standstill

6 days since the last southern standstill on 2 October 2060 at 10:31 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.102° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.128° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 October 2060 at 01:32 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

25 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 1 day

In 1 day on 9 October 2060 at 18:41 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