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

Waxing Gibbous in Capricorn

Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 81% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 10 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 ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 10 August 2092 at 15:18.

Sturgeon Moon after 3 days

Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2092 after 3 days on 17 August 2092 at 09:22.

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 ∠1968"

Lunar disc appears visually 3.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1968" and ∠1894".

Lunation 1145 / 2098

The Moon is 10 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1145 of Meeus index or 2098 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.51 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 20 minutes and it is 1 hour and 19 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 shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 24 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 45 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠246.7°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠246.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠282.2°.

Moon at perigee

Moon is at perigee at 17:47 about 15 days since last apogee on 29 July 2092 at 00:58 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 25 August 2092 at 18:58 in ♊ Gemini.

Distance to Moon 366 986 km

This perigee Moon is 366 986 km (228 035 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 478 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 3 370 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.

Moon before descending node

9 days after ascending node on 3 August 2092 at 13:51 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 16 August 2092 at 14:00 in ♒ Aquarius.

Moon before southern standstill

12 days since the last northern standstill on 31 July 2092 at 20:14 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.082° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-20.084° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 August 2092 at 05:05 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

9 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 3 days

In 3 days on 17 August 2092 at 09:22 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