Waxing
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
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 ♐ Sagittarius.
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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 10 June 2008 at 15:04.
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 is entering ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1889".
Strawberry Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2008 after 2 days on 18 June 2008 at 17:30.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 18 June 2008 at 17:30
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 26 June 2008 at 12:10
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 3 July 2008 at 02:19
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 10 July 2008 at 04:35
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 104 / 1057
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 104 of Meeus index or 1057 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.29 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 6 hours and 56 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2008. It is 58 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 5 hours and 48 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 21 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠4.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠4.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠20.1°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 17:33. It is 13 days after previous perigee on 3 June 2008 at 13:08 in ♊ Gemini. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 15 days, until point of next perigee on 1 July 2008 at 21:22 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 406 229 km
This apogee Moon is 406 229 km (252 419 mi) away from Earth. It is 821 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 480 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
8 days after descending node on 8 June 2008 at 09:15 in ♌ Leo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 22 June 2008 at 23:17 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
20 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
12 days since the previous standstill on 4 June 2008 at 11:38 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.527°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-27.510° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 June 2008 at 09:08 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 18 June 2008 at 17:30 in ♐ Sagittarius 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.
