Waxing
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 92% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 92% and growing larger. The 12 days young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 7 August 2019 at 17:31.
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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1810"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1810" and ∠1894".
Sturgeon Moon after 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2019 after 3 days on 15 August 2019 at 12:29.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 15 August 2019 at 12:29
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 23 August 2019 at 14:56
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 30 August 2019 at 10:37
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 6 September 2019 at 03:10
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 242 / 1195
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 242 of Meeus index or 1195 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.31 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 25 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2019. It is 24 minutes shorter 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 5 hours and 19 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 50 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠340.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠340.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠356.3°.
Moon before perigee
10 days after point of perigee on 2 August 2019 at 07:08 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 17 August 2019 at 10:50 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 395 909 km
The Moon is 395 909 km (246 006 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 244 km (252 428 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♑ Capricorn at 14:45 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 14 days later on 27 August 2019 at 01:50 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 04:28 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-22.399°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠22.473° at the point of next standstill in ♋ Cancer on 26 August 2019 at 17:53.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 15 August 2019 at 12:29 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.
