Waxing
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 73% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 73% and growing larger. The 9 days young Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 14 August 2013 at 10:56.
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 passing about ∠21° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1969"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1969" and ∠1895".
Sturgeon Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2013 after 4 days on 21 August 2013 at 01:45.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 21 August 2013 at 01:45
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 28 August 2013 at 09:35
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 5 September 2013 at 11:36
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 12 September 2013 at 17:08
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 168 / 1121
The Moon is 9 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 168 of Meeus index or 1121 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.57 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 45 minutes. It is 47 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 1 hour and 1 minute longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 2 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠216.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠216.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠249.2°.
Moon before apogee
13 days after point of apogee on 3 August 2013 at 08:53 in ♋ Cancer. 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 19 August 2013 at 01:26 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 364 037 km
The Moon is 364 037 km (226 202 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 265 km (225 101 mi).
Moon after ascending node
2 days after ascending node on 13 August 2013 at 16:20 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 26 August 2013 at 08:19 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
2 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 12:06 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-19.906°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠19.801° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 29 August 2013 at 17:03.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 21 August 2013 at 01:45 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.
