Waxing
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 94% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 94% and growing larger. The 12 days young Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 14 July 2005 at 15:20.
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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1950"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1950" and ∠1888".
Buck Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2005 after 1 day on 21 July 2005 at 11:00.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 21 July 2005 at 11:00
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 28 July 2005 at 03:19
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 5 August 2005 at 03:05
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 13 August 2005 at 02:39
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 68 / 1021
The Moon is 12 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 68 of Meeus index or 1021 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.63 days
Length of current 68 lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 2 minutes. It is 39 minutes shorter than next lunation 69 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 18 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 45 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠158.8°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠158.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠181.9°. 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
10 days after point of apogee on 8 July 2005 at 17:39 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 2 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 21 July 2005 at 19:44 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 367 585 km
Moon is 367 585 km (228 407 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 2 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 357 160 km (221 929 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after its descending node on 14 July 2005 at 06:35 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 7 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 26 July 2005 at 17:58 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
19 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon in southern standstill
At 17:52 on this date the Moon is meeting its South standstill point, when it will reach southern declination of ∠-28.265°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite northward direction to face North declination of ∠28.311° in its northern standstill point on 1 August 2005 at 18:06 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 1 day
After 1 day on 21 July 2005 at 11:00 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.