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 93% 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 ∠3° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.

5 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 15 July 2070 at 03:26.

Buck Moon after 2 days

Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2070 after 2 days on 23 July 2070 at 07:02.

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 ∠1770"

Lunar disc appears visually 6.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1888".

Lunation 872 / 1825

The Moon is 12 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 872 of Meeus index or 1825 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.32 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 37 minutes and it is 2 hours 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 5 hours and 7 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 2 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠21.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠21.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠40.1°.

Moon after apogee

1 day since point of apogee on 19 July 2070 at 01:07 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 3 August 2070 at 20:19 in ♊ Gemini.

Distance to Moon 404 861 km

The Moon is 404 861 km (251 569 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 14 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 129 km (226 259 mi).

Moon after ascending node

5 days after ascending node on 14 July 2070 at 23:10 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 29 July 2070 at 08:38 in ♈ Aries.

Moon at southern standstill

At 08:09 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-18.774°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠18.683° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 3 August 2070 at 00:42.

Draconic month

5 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 2 days

In 2 days on 23 July 2070 at 07:02 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