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Moon ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 97% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 97% and growing larger. The 13 days young Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 27 May 2023 at 15:22.
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 ∠20° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1878"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1878" and ∠1892".
Strawberry Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2023 after 1 day on 4 June 2023 at 03:42.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 4 June 2023 at 03:42
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 10 June 2023 at 19:31
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 18 June 2023 at 04:37
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 26 June 2023 at 07:50
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 289 / 1242
The Moon is 13 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 289 of Meeus index or 1242 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.53 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 44 minutes. It is 1 hour and 11 minutes shorter 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 same as the mean
The length of the current synodic month is equal to the mean synodic month length. It is %hours_to_shortest% and %minutes_to_shortest% longer than the 21st century's shortest and %hours_to_longest% and %minutes_to_longest% shorter than the 21st century's longest synodic months.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠92.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠92.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠127.4°.
Moon before apogee
7 days after point of apogee on 26 May 2023 at 01:39 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 June 2023 at 23:07 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 381 663 km
The Moon is 381 663 km (237 154 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 860 km (226 713 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 1 June 2023 at 06:23 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 14 June 2023 at 00:05 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
15 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
10 days since the previous standstill on 22 May 2023 at 14:08 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.903°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.866° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 June 2023 at 16:21 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 4 June 2023 at 03:42 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.
