Waxing Gibbous Moon
Waxing Gibbous MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waxing Gibbous in Capricorn

Waxing Gibbous on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 92% and growing larger. Lunar cycle is 12 days young.

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.

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 25 July 2023 at 22:07.

Sturgeon Moon after 2 days

Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2023 after 2 days on 1 August 2023 at 18:31.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1941"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1941" and ∠1890".

Lunation 291 / 1244

The Moon is 12 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 291 of Meeus index or 1244 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.63 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 6 minutes and it is 56 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit 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 22 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 41 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠155.7°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠155.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠179.2°.

Moon before perigee

10 days since point of apogee on 20 July 2023 at 06:56 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 2 August 2023 at 05:52 in ♒ Aquarius.

Distance to Moon 369 322 km

The Moon is 369 322 km (229 486 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 311 km (222 023 mi).

Moon after descending node

4 days after descending node on 25 July 2023 at 15:05 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 7 August 2023 at 02:46 in ♈ Aries.

Moon at southern standstill

At 11:13 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-27.924°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠27.981° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 12 August 2023 at 07:39.

Draconic month

19 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 2 days

In 2 days on 1 August 2023 at 18:31 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov