Waxing
Gibbous ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 88% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 88% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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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 21 April 2010 at 18:20.
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 ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1957"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1957" and ∠1907".
Pink Moon after 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2010 after 3 days on 28 April 2010 at 12:18.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 28 April 2010 at 12:18
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 6 May 2010 at 04:15
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 14 May 2010 at 01:04
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 20 May 2010 at 23:43
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 127 / 1080
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 127 of Meeus index or 1080 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.52 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 35 minutes. It is 2 hours and 25 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 9 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠247.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠247.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠282.4°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 24 April 2010 at 20:59 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 6 May 2010 at 21:53 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 366 221 km
The Moon is 366 221 km (227 559 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 231 km (251 177 mi).
Moon after descending node
4 days after descending node on 20 April 2010 at 13:38 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 3 May 2010 at 12:35 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
19 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 18 April 2010 at 17:15 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.182°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.109° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 May 2010 at 14:01 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 28 April 2010 at 12:18 in ♏ Scorpio 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.
