Waxing
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
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 8 July 2011 at 06:29.
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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1894"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1894" and ∠1888".
Buck Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2011 after 1 day on 15 July 2011 at 06:40.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 15 July 2011 at 06:40
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 23 July 2011 at 05:02
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 30 July 2011 at 18:40
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 6 August 2011 at 11:08
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 142 / 1095
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 142 of Meeus index or 1095 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.41 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 46 minutes. It is 1 hour and 22 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 2 hours and 58 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 11 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠283.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠283.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠312.1°.
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 7 July 2011 at 14:04 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 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 21 July 2011 at 22:46 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 378 433 km
The Moon is 378 433 km (235 147 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 358 km (251 256 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 02:27 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 27 July 2011 at 12:03 in ♊ Gemini.
New draconic month
At 02:27 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 12 July 2011 at 16:51 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.383°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.333° at the point of next northern standstill on 27 July 2011 at 03:02 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 15 July 2011 at 06:40 in ♑ Capricorn 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.
