Waxing
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase on 22 July 2010 Thursday is Waxing Gibbous, 11 days young Moon is in Sagittarius.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaxing 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 ♐ Sagittarius.
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Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 18 July 2010 at 10:11.
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 passing about ∠19° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 2.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1840" and ∠1889".
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2010 after 3 days on 26 July 2010 at 01:37.
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.
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 130 of Meeus index or 1083 from Brown series.
Length of current 130 lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 28 minutes. It is 6 minutes longer than next lunation 131 length.
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 16 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 53 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
This lunation true anomaly is ∠332.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠349.5°. 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°).
9 days after point of perigee on 13 July 2010 at 11:21 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 28 July 2010 at 23:50 in ♓ Pisces.
Moon is 389 543 km (242 051 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 6 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 955 km (252 249 mi).
11 days after its descending node on 11 July 2010 at 07:30 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 24 July 2010 at 07:59 in ♑ Capricorn.
25 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
At 11:12 on this date the Moon is meeting its South standstill point, when it will reach southern declination of ∠-25.034°. Next 14 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite northward direction to face North declination of ∠24.984° in its northern standstill point on 6 August 2010 at 02:49 in ♊ Gemini.
After 3 days on 26 July 2010 at 01:37 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.