Waxing Gibbous Moon
Waxing Gibbous MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waxing Gibbous in Sagittarius

Waxing Gibbous on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 73% and growing larger. Lunar cycle is 9 days young.

Moonrise and moonset

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.

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is passing about ∠17° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 9 August 2084 at 09:32.

Sturgeon Moon after 4 days

Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2084 after 4 days on 16 August 2084 at 00:29.

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 ∠1961"

Lunar disc appears visually 3.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1961" and ∠1894".

Lunation 1046 / 1999

The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1046 of Meeus index or 1999 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.61 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 41 minutes and it is 1 hour and 9 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 57 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 6 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠203.8°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠203.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠232.5°.

Moon before perigee

12 days since point of apogee on 30 July 2084 at 05:23 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 14 August 2084 at 14:11 in ♑ Capricorn.

Distance to Moon 365 546 km

The Moon is 365 546 km (227 140 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 203 km (223 820 mi).

Moon before ascending node

11 days after descending node on 31 July 2084 at 00:13 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 13 August 2084 at 17:30 in ♑ Capricorn.

Moon at southern standstill

At 16:59 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-25.594°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠25.538° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 24 August 2084 at 17:51.

Draconic month

25 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 4 days

In 4 days on 16 August 2084 at 00:29 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