Waxing
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 81% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 81% and growing larger. The 10 days young Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 27 July 2020 at 12:32.
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 ∠16° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1927"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1927" and ∠1890".
Sturgeon Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2020 after 4 days on 3 August 2020 at 15:59.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 3 August 2020 at 15:59
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 11 August 2020 at 16:45
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 19 August 2020 at 02:41
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 25 August 2020 at 17:58
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 254 / 1207
The Moon is 10 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 254 of Meeus index or 1207 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.38 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 9 minutes. It is 50 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 3 hours and 35 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 34 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠296.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠296.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠322.3°.
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 25 July 2020 at 04:54 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 9 August 2020 at 13:51 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 371 890 km
The Moon is 371 890 km (231 082 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 658 km (251 443 mi).
Moon before descending node
11 days after ascending node on 18 July 2020 at 12:33 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 31 July 2020 at 09:32 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
11 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 19 July 2020 at 11:51 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.069°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-24.087° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 August 2020 at 08:47 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 3 August 2020 at 15:59 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.
