Waxing
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 67% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 67% and growing larger. The 9 days young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 13 May 2016 at 17:02.
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 ∠15° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1796"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1796" and ∠1898".
Flower Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2016 after 6 days on 21 May 2016 at 21:15.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 21 May 2016 at 21:15
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 29 May 2016 at 12:12
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 5 June 2016 at 03:00
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 12 June 2016 at 08:10
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 202 / 1155
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 202 of Meeus index or 1155 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.31 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 30 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2016. It is 31 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 14 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 55 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠10.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠10.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠27.6°.
Moon before perigee
9 days after point of perigee on 6 May 2016 at 04:14 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 18 May 2016 at 22:06 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 399 028 km
The Moon is 399 028 km (247 945 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 934 km (252 236 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♍ Virgo at 20:39 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 30 May 2016 at 04:45 in ♓ Pisces.
New draconic month
At 20:39 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 9 May 2016 at 21:54 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.447°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.539° at the point of next southern standstill on 24 May 2016 at 11:16 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 21 May 2016 at 21:15 in ♏ Scorpio 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.
