Waxing
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 94% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 94% and growing larger. The 12 days young Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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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 1 July 2017 at 00:51.
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 ∠15° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1887".
Buck Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2017 after 2 days on 9 July 2017 at 04:07.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 9 July 2017 at 04:07
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 16 July 2017 at 19:26
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 23 July 2017 at 09:46
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 30 July 2017 at 15:23
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 216 / 1169
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 216 of Meeus index or 1169 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.3 days
Length of current 216 lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 15 minutes. It is 1 hour and 30 minutes shorter than next lunation 217 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 29 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 40 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠11°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠11°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠27.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon in apogee
Moon is reaching point of apogee on this date at 04:27, this is 12 days after last perigee on 23 June 2017 at 10:49 in ♊ Gemini. Lunar orbit is starting to get closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth for 15 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next perigee on 21 July 2017 at 17:09 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 405 934 km
This apogee Moon is 405 934 km (252 236 mi) away from Earth. It is 526 km farther than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 775 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
8 days after its ascending node on 27 June 2017 at 16:26 in ♌ Leo, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 5 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 12 July 2017 at 05:17 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
8 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
12 days after previous North standstill on 24 June 2017 at 11:12 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠19.434°. Next day the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-19.440° in the next southern standstill on 8 July 2017 at 10:49 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 2 days
After 2 days on 9 July 2017 at 04:07 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.