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 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

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 4 August 2098 at 01:43.

Sturgeon Moon after 3 days

Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2098 after 3 days on 12 August 2098 at 01:44.

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 ∠1788"

Lunar disc appears visually 5.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1788" and ∠1893".

Lunation 1219 / 2172

The Moon is 11 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1219 of Meeus index or 2172 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.29 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 2 minutes and it is 1 hour and 22 minutes 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 5 hours and 42 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 27 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠355.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠355.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠10.1°.

Moon before apogee

10 days since point of perigee on 28 July 2098 at 15:50 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 11 August 2098 at 14:55 in ♒ Aquarius.

Distance to Moon 400 805 km

The Moon is 400 805 km (249 049 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 374 km (252 509 mi).

Moon after descending node

6 days after descending node on 2 August 2098 at 04:55 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 16 August 2098 at 17:55 in ♈ Aries.

Moon at southern standstill

At 03:03 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.295°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.393° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 22 August 2098 at 13:44.

Draconic month

18 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 3 days

In 3 days on 12 August 2098 at 01:44 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