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

Waxing Gibbous in Leo

Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 66% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 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 ♌ Leo

Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 9 April 2003 at 23:40.

Pink Moon after 5 days

Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2003 after 5 days on 16 April 2003 at 19:36.

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 ∠1876"

Lunar disc appears visually 2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1876" and ∠1914".

Lunation 40 / 993

The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 40 of Meeus index or 993 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.71 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 56 minutes and it is 51 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2003. 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 4 hours and 12 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 51 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠157.7°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠157.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠181.7°.

Moon before perigee

7 days since point of apogee on 4 April 2003 at 04:31 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 17 April 2003 at 04:58 in ♏ Scorpio.

Distance to Moon 382 153 km

The Moon is 382 153 km (237 459 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 158 km (221 928 mi).

Moon after ascending node

5 days after ascending node on 5 April 2003 at 21:41 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 19 April 2003 at 00:24 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Moon after northern standstill

2 days since the last northern standstill on 9 April 2003 at 03:25 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.383° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.442° at the point of next southern standstill on 21 April 2003 at 17:59 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

5 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 5 days

In 5 days on 16 April 2003 at 19:36 in ♎ Libra 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