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 90% 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 ♏ Scorpio

Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 1 June 2066 at 07:13.

Strawberry Moon after 2 days

Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2066 after 2 days on 8 June 2066 at 02:31.

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 ∠1940"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1940" and ∠1891".

Lunation 821 / 1774

The Moon is 12 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 821 of Meeus index or 1774 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.65 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 37 minutes and it is 18 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2066. 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 53 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 10 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠160.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠160.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠183.2°.

Moon before perigee

10 days since point of apogee on 26 May 2066 at 06:49 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 8 June 2066 at 10:06 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 369 454 km

The Moon is 369 454 km (229 568 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 249 km (221 984 mi).

Moon before ascending node

9 days after descending node on 27 May 2066 at 04:17 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 9 June 2066 at 12:08 in ♑ Capricorn.

Moon before southern standstill

11 days since the last northern standstill on 25 May 2066 at 11:45 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.714° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.723° at the point of next southern standstill on 8 June 2066 at 04:59 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

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

Syzygy in 2 days

In 2 days on 8 June 2066 at 02:31 in ♐ Sagittarius 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