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 is entering ♓ Pisces

Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.

5 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 4 September 2068 at 22:04.

Harvest Moon after 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2068 after 1 day on 11 September 2068 at 17:19.

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 ∠1962"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1962" and ∠1906".

Lunation 849 / 1802

The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 849 of Meeus index or 1802 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.68 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 20 minutes and it is 1 hour and 9 minutes shorter 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 36 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 27 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠160.5°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠160.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠183.9°.

Moon before perigee

11 days since point of apogee on 29 August 2068 at 20:38 in ♍ Virgo 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 12 September 2068 at 00:17 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 365 298 km

The Moon is 365 298 km (226 986 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 950 km (221 798 mi).

Moon before descending node

6 days after ascending node on 3 September 2068 at 12:48 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 16 September 2068 at 02:30 in ♉ Taurus.

Moon after southern standstill

5 days since the last southern standstill on 5 September 2068 at 09:10 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.990° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.889° at the point of next northern standstill on 17 September 2068 at 21:08 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

6 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 1 day

In 1 day on 11 September 2068 at 17:19 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