Waxing
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
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 ♐ 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 22 July 2007 at 06:29.
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 passing about ∠20° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1804"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1804" and ∠1889".
Buck Moon after 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2007 after 3 days on 30 July 2007 at 00:48.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 30 July 2007 at 00:48
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 5 August 2007 at 21:20
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 12 August 2007 at 23:03
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 20 August 2007 at 23:54
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 93 / 1046
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 93 of Meeus index or 1046 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.46 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 59 minutes. It is 2 hours and 43 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the 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 1 hour and 45 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 24 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠64.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠64.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠97.3°.
Moon after apogee
4 days after point of apogee on 22 July 2007 at 08:43 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 3 August 2007 at 23:52 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 397 390 km
The Moon is 397 390 km (246 927 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 892 km (229 219 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after descending node on 18 July 2007 at 00:18 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 1 August 2007 at 06:03 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
21 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 23:22 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.300°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.342° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 8 August 2007 at 23:02.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 30 July 2007 at 00:48 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.
