Waxing
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 87% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 87% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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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 June 2013 at 17:24.
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 ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠17° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1945"
Lunar disc appears visually 3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1945" and ∠1888".
Strawberry Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2013 after 2 days on 23 June 2013 at 11:32.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 23 June 2013 at 11:32
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 30 June 2013 at 04:54
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 8 July 2013 at 07:14
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 16 July 2013 at 03:18
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 166 / 1119
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 166 of Meeus index or 1119 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 18 minutes. It is 42 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 34 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 29 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠168.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠168.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠191.6°.
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of apogee on 9 June 2013 at 21:40 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 June 2013 at 11:09 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 368 487 km
The Moon is 368 487 km (228 967 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 990 km (221 823 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♏ Scorpio at 09:51 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 12 days later on 3 July 2013 at 04:15 in ♉ Taurus.
New draconic month
At 09:51 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 8 June 2013 at 19:16 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.200°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.186° at the point of next southern standstill on 22 June 2013 at 16:11 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 23 June 2013 at 11:32 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.
