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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.

4 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 21 July 2064 at 03:35.

Buck Moon after 2 days

Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2064 after 2 days on 28 July 2064 at 07:40.

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 ∠1889"

Lunar disc appears visually 0% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1889" and ∠1889".

Lunation 798 / 1751

The Moon is 12 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 798 of Meeus index or 1751 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.38 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 3 minutes and it is 41 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 3 hours and 41 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 28 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠301.5°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠301.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠325.7°.

Moon after perigee

7 days since point of perigee on 18 July 2064 at 08:38 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 2 August 2064 at 22:45 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 379 354 km

The Moon is 379 354 km (235 720 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 778 km (251 517 mi).

Moon before ascending node

9 days after descending node on 16 July 2064 at 00:17 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 29 July 2064 at 02:05 in ♒ Aquarius.

Moon at southern standstill

At 00:49 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-27.393°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠27.403° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 8 August 2064 at 13:25.

Draconic month

23 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 2 days

In 2 days on 28 July 2064 at 07:40 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