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

Waxing Gibbous in Capricorn

Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 81% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 10 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 ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 23 August 2061 at 01:18.

Sturgeon Moon after 4 days

Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2061 after 4 days on 30 August 2061 at 22:18.

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 ∠1782"

Lunar disc appears visually 6.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1782" and ∠1899".

Lunation 762 / 1715

The Moon is 10 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 762 of Meeus index or 1715 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.46 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 58 minutes and it is 3 hours and 6 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 1 hour and 46 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 23 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠53.7°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠53.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠84.5°.

Moon after apogee

2 days since point of apogee on 23 August 2061 at 20:28 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 September 2061 at 10:37 in ♊ Gemini.

Distance to Moon 402 300 km

The Moon is 402 300 km (249 978 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 805 km (229 786 mi).

Moon before ascending node

7 days after descending node on 19 August 2061 at 00:57 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 2 September 2061 at 08:31 in ♈ Aries.

Moon after southern standstill

1 day since the last southern standstill on 25 August 2061 at 17:13 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.503° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.571° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 September 2061 at 02:43 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

20 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 4 days

In 4 days on 30 August 2061 at 22:18 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