Waxing
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 85% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 85% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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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 16 August 2010 at 18:14.
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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1810"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1810" and ∠1897".
Sturgeon Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2010 after 4 days on 24 August 2010 at 17:05.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 24 August 2010 at 17:05
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 1 September 2010 at 17:22
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 8 September 2010 at 10:30
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 15 September 2010 at 05:50
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 131 / 1084
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 131 of Meeus index or 1084 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.31 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 22 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2010. It is 53 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 22 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 47 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠349.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠349.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠4.6°.
Moon before perigee
9 days after point of perigee on 10 August 2010 at 17:56 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 25 August 2010 at 05:51 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 396 045 km
The Moon is 396 045 km (246 091 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 390 km (252 519 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♑ Capricorn at 12:13 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 4 September 2010 at 00:16 in ♋ Cancer.
New draconic month
At 12:13 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 18 August 2010 at 17:07 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.929°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.807° at the point of next northern standstill on 2 September 2010 at 11:20 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 24 August 2010 at 17:05 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.
