Waxing
Gibbous ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 92% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 92% and growing larger. The 12 days young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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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 7 April 2014 at 08:31.
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 ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1797"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1797" and ∠1914".
Pink Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2014 after 2 days on 15 April 2014 at 07:42.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 15 April 2014 at 07:42
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 22 April 2014 at 07:52
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 29 April 2014 at 06:14
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 7 May 2014 at 03:15
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 176 / 1129
The Moon is 12 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 176 of Meeus index or 1129 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.48 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 30 minutes. It is 56 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 1 hour and 14 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 55 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠46.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠46.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠76.9°.
Moon after apogee
3 days after point of apogee on 8 April 2014 at 14:52 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 April 2014 at 00:27 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 398 784 km
The Moon is 398 784 km (247 793 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 765 km (229 761 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after descending node on 1 April 2014 at 02:30 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 15 April 2014 at 13:22 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
24 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 5 April 2014 at 07:12 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.957°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.946° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 April 2014 at 12:55 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 15 April 2014 at 07:42 in ♎ Libra 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.
