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

Waxing Gibbous in Capricorn

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 ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 28 August 2085 at 08:30.

Harvest Moon after 4 days

Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2085 after 4 days on 4 September 2085 at 00:41.

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 ∠1932"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1932" and ∠1901".

Lunation 1059 / 2012

The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1059 of Meeus index or 2012 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.66 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 56 minutes and it is 3 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2085. 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 12 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 51 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠180.2°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠180.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠204.1°.

Moon before perigee

10 days since point of apogee on 20 August 2085 at 08:35 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 3 September 2085 at 13:43 in ♒ Aquarius.

Distance to Moon 370 968 km

The Moon is 370 968 km (230 509 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 232 km (221 974 mi).

Moon in ascending node

Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 02:34 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next descending node later on 11 September 2085 at 15:17 in ♊ Gemini.

Moon after southern standstill

1 day since the last southern standstill on 29 August 2085 at 08:12 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.865° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.764° at the point of next northern standstill on 10 September 2085 at 21:10 in ♊ Gemini.

New draconic month

At 02:34 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.

Syzygy in 4 days

In 4 days on 4 September 2085 at 00:41 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