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

Waxing Gibbous in Aquarius

Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 89% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 11 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

Slide horizontally to discover the moon phase on nearby dates.

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon is entering ♒ Aquarius

Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 29 August 2093 at 16:58.

Harvest Moon after 2 days

Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2093 after 2 days on 5 September 2093 at 08:28.

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 ∠1972"

Lunar disc appears visually 3.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1902".

Lunation 1158 / 2111

The Moon is 11 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1158 of Meeus index or 2111 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.6 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 23 minutes and it is 1 hour and 6 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 39 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 24 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠215.5°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠215.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠247.8°.

Moon before perigee

14 days since point of apogee on 18 August 2093 at 17:01 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 3 September 2093 at 09:46 in ♒ Aquarius.

Distance to Moon 363 459 km

The Moon is 363 459 km (225 843 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 104 km (225 001 mi).

Moon in descending node

Moon is in descending node in ♑ Capricorn at 01:36 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 15 September 2093 at 11:15 in ♋ Cancer.

Moon after southern standstill

1 day since the last southern standstill on 1 September 2093 at 03:48 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.745° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.823° at the point of next northern standstill on 14 September 2093 at 09:50 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 2 days

In 2 days on 5 September 2093 at 08:28 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