Waxing
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
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 ♒ Aquarius.
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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 10 August 2016 at 18:21.
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 is entering ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1854"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1854" and ∠1895".
Sturgeon Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2016 after 1 day on 18 August 2016 at 09:27.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 18 August 2016 at 09:27
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 25 August 2016 at 03:41
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 1 September 2016 at 09:03
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 9 September 2016 at 11:49
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 205 / 1158
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 205 of Meeus index or 1158 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.51 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 19 minutes. It is 2 hours and 49 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 25 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 44 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠77.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠77.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠112.8°.
Moon before apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 10 August 2016 at 00:05 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 22 August 2016 at 01:20 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 386 650 km
The Moon is 386 650 km (240 253 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 047 km (228 072 mi).
Moon before descending node
11 days after ascending node on 5 August 2016 at 07:48 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 19 August 2016 at 14:14 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
11 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 14 August 2016 at 13:05 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.481°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.455° at the point of next northern standstill on 27 August 2016 at 11:17 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 18 August 2016 at 09:27 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.
