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 91% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 12 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 ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is passing about ∠10° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 3 July 2063 at 02:01.

Buck Moon after 3 days

Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2063 after 3 days on 10 July 2063 at 13:48.

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 ∠1847"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1847" and ∠1887".

Lunation 785 / 1738

The Moon is 12 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 785 of Meeus index or 1738 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.31 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 30 minutes and it is 8 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 14 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 55 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠325.5°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠325.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠343.4°.

Moon before apogee

8 days since point of perigee on 28 June 2063 at 13:31 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 14 July 2063 at 06:53 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 387 999 km

The Moon is 387 999 km (241 091 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 517 km (251 977 mi).

Moon after descending node

6 days after descending node on 30 June 2063 at 13:32 in ♌ Leo 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 14 July 2063 at 10:44 in ♓ Pisces.

Moon before southern standstill

11 days since the last northern standstill on 25 June 2063 at 20:12 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.102° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-28.119° at the point of next southern standstill on 8 July 2063 at 18:22 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

20 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 3 days

In 3 days on 10 July 2063 at 13:48 in ♑ Capricorn 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