Waxing
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 65% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 65% 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 3 May 2017 at 02:47.
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 ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1884"
Lunar disc appears visually 1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1884" and ∠1902".
Flower Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2017 after 6 days on 10 May 2017 at 21:43.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 10 May 2017 at 21:43
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 19 May 2017 at 00:33
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 25 May 2017 at 19:44
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 1 June 2017 at 12:42
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 214 / 1167
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 214 of Meeus index or 1167 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.31 days
Length of current 214 lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 28 minutes. It is 42 minutes longer than next lunation 215 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 16 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 53 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠340.4°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠340.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠356°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after perigee
6 days after point of perigee on 27 April 2017 at 16:18 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 8 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 12 May 2017 at 19:51 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 380 417 km
Moon is 380 417 km (236 380 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 8 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 212 km (252 408 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♍ Virgo at 10:42 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from South to North. Moon will follow the northern part of its orbit for the next 14 days to meet descending node on 19 May 2017 at 01:30 in ♒ Aquarius.
New draconic month
At 10:42 on this date the Moon is completing its previous draconic month and is entering the new one.
Moon after northern standstill
3 days after previous North standstill on 30 April 2017 at 13:33 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠19.187°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-19.302° in the next southern standstill on 14 May 2017 at 20:29 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 6 days
After 6 days on 10 May 2017 at 21:43 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.