Waxing
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 96% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 96% and growing larger. The 13 days young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 17 July 2002 at 04:47.
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.
Moon in ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1870"
Lunar disc appears visually 1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1870" and ∠1889".
Buck Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2002 after 1 day on 24 July 2002 at 09:07.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 24 July 2002 at 09:07
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 1 August 2002 at 10:22
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 8 August 2002 at 19:15
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 15 August 2002 at 10:12
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.
Lunation 31 / 984
The Moon is 13 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 31 of Meeus index or 984 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.37 days
Length of current 31 lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 49 minutes. It is 54 minutes longer than next lunation 32 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 55 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 14 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠300.4°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠300.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠324.8°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before apogee
7 days after point of perigee on 14 July 2002 at 13:13 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 30 July 2002 at 01:45 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 383 315 km
Moon is 383 315 km (238 181 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 7 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 742 km (251 495 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after its descending node on 21 July 2002 at 00:41 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 12 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 4 August 2002 at 11:03 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
14 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon in southern standstill
At 19:08 on this date the Moon is meeting its South standstill point, when it will reach southern declination of ∠-25.053°. Next 14 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite northward direction to face North declination of ∠25.104° in its northern standstill point on 6 August 2002 at 06:59 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 1 day
After 1 day on 24 July 2002 at 09:07 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.