Waxing
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 87% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 87% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 7 June 2022 at 14:48.
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 ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1926"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1926" and ∠1890".
Strawberry Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2022 after 2 days on 14 June 2022 at 11:52.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 14 June 2022 at 11:52
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 21 June 2022 at 03:11
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 29 June 2022 at 02:52
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 7 July 2022 at 02:14
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 277 / 1230
The Moon is 11 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 277 of Meeus index or 1230 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 22 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2022. It is 19 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 38 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 25 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠155.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠155.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠178.8°.
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of apogee on 2 June 2022 at 01:14 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 14 June 2022 at 23:21 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 372 082 km
The Moon is 372 082 km (231 201 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 434 km (222 099 mi).
Moon before descending node
13 days after ascending node on 29 May 2022 at 02:33 in ♉ Taurus. 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 12 June 2022 at 10:02 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 1 June 2022 at 22:32 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.943°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.924° at the point of next southern standstill on 15 June 2022 at 10:59 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 14 June 2022 at 11:52 in ♐ Sagittarius 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.
