Waxing
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 83% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 83% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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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 31 May 2009 at 03:22.
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 ♎ Libra
Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1856"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1856" and ∠1891".
Strawberry Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2009 after 4 days on 7 June 2009 at 18:12.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 7 June 2009 at 18:12
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 15 June 2009 at 22:15
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 22 June 2009 at 19:35
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 29 June 2009 at 11:28
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 116 / 1069
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 116 of Meeus index or 1069 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.31 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 24 minutes. It is 24 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 20 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 49 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠332.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠332.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠349.4°.
Moon before perigee
8 days after point of perigee on 26 May 2009 at 03:44 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 10 June 2009 at 16:04 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 386 216 km
The Moon is 386 216 km (239 983 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 786 km (252 144 mi).
Moon after descending node
6 days after descending node on 28 May 2009 at 10:19 in ♌ Leo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 11 June 2009 at 10:15 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
19 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
8 days since the previous standstill on 25 May 2009 at 16:56 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.451°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.429° at the point of next southern standstill on 8 June 2009 at 02:03 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 7 June 2009 at 18:12 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.
