Waxing
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 78% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 78% and growing larger. The 10 days young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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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 25 August 2020 at 17:58.
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 ∠10° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1893"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1893" and ∠1900".
Harvest Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2020 after 4 days on 2 September 2020 at 05:22.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 2 September 2020 at 05:22
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 10 September 2020 at 09:26
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 17 September 2020 at 11:00
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 24 September 2020 at 01:55
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 255 / 1208
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 255 of Meeus index or 1208 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.35 days
Length of current 255 lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 19 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2020. It is 12 minutes shorter than next lunation 256 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 26 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 44 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠322.3°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠322.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠341.2°. 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
7 days after point of perigee on 21 August 2020 at 10:59 in ♎ Libra. 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 6 September 2020 at 06:31 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 378 574 km
Moon is 378 574 km (235 235 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 8 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 606 km (252 032 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after its descending node on 27 August 2020 at 11:52 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 13 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 10 September 2020 at 23:05 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
13 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon in southern standstill
At 14:06 on this date the Moon is meeting its South standstill point, when it will reach southern declination of ∠-24.219°. Next 14 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite northward direction to face North declination of ∠24.353° in its northern standstill point on 12 September 2020 at 05:25 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 4 days
After 4 days on 2 September 2020 at 05:22 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.