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 12 May 2019 at 01:12.
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 ∠12° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1971"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1899".
Flower Moon after 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2019 after 5 days on 18 May 2019 at 21:11.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 18 May 2019 at 21:11
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 26 May 2019 at 16:33
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 3 June 2019 at 10:02
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 10 June 2019 at 05:59
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 239 / 1192
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 239 of Meeus index or 1192 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.47 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 16 minutes. It is 2 hours and 2 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 28 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 41 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠263°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠263°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠296.1°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 21:53. It is 15 days after previous apogee on 28 April 2019 at 18:20 in ♒ Aquarius. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 13 days, until point of next apogee on 26 May 2019 at 13:27 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 369 017 km
This perigee Moon is 369 017 km (229 297 mi) away from Earth. It is 6 509 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 1 339 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
3 days after ascending node on 9 May 2019 at 18:50 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 22 May 2019 at 19:12 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
3 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 9 May 2019 at 05:46 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.243°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-22.313° at the point of next southern standstill on 22 May 2019 at 06:41 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 18 May 2019 at 21:11 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.
