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 67% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 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 ∠14° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 15 August 2078 at 17:34.

Sturgeon Moon after 5 days

Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2078 after 5 days on 23 August 2078 at 08:11.

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 ∠1784"

Lunar disc appears visually 6.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1784" and ∠1896".

Lunation 972 / 1925

The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 972 of Meeus index or 1925 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.5 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 7 minutes and it is 3 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 37 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 32 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠80.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠80.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠115.1°.

Moon after apogee

2 days since point of apogee on 14 August 2078 at 20:09 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 26 August 2078 at 20:12 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 401 884 km

The Moon is 401 884 km (249 719 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 786 km (227 910 mi).

Moon after descending node

2 days after descending node on 14 August 2078 at 22:47 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 28 August 2078 at 09:02 in ♉ Taurus.

Moon before southern standstill

12 days since the last northern standstill on 5 August 2078 at 00:22 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.132° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-27.225° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 August 2078 at 07:52 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 5 days

In 5 days on 23 August 2078 at 08:11 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