Waxing
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 87% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 87% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 7 June 2003 at 20:28.
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 ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1890".
Strawberry Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2003 after 2 days on 14 June 2003 at 11:16.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 14 June 2003 at 11:16
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 21 June 2003 at 14:45
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 29 June 2003 at 18:39
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 7 July 2003 at 02:32
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 42 / 995
The Moon is 11 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 42 of Meeus index or 995 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.6 days
Length of current 42 lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 19 minutes. It is 2 hours and 5 minutes longer than next lunation 43 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 35 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 28 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠205.5°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠205.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠234.1°. 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 perigee
13 days after point of apogee on 28 May 2003 at 13:05 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next perigee on 12 June 2003 at 23:18 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 363 349 km
Moon is 363 349 km (225 775 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next day until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 360 427 km (223 959 mi).
Moon before descending node
12 days after its ascending node on 30 May 2003 at 08:33 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 12 June 2003 at 21:16 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
12 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
8 days after previous North standstill on 2 June 2003 at 15:27 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠26.491°. Next 4 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-26.477° in the next southern standstill on 15 June 2003 at 13:28 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 2 days
After 2 days on 14 June 2003 at 11:16 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.