Waxing
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 82% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 82% and growing larger. The 10 days young Moon is in ♌ Leo.
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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 5 April 2025 at 02:15.
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 ♌ Leo
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1822"
Lunar disc appears visually 5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1822" and ∠1916".
Pink Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2025 after 4 days on 13 April 2025 at 00:22.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 13 April 2025 at 00:22
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 21 April 2025 at 01:36
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 27 April 2025 at 19:31
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 4 May 2025 at 13:52
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 312 / 1265
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 312 of Meeus index or 1265 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.36 days
Length of current 312 lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 33 minutes. It is 1 hour and 2 minutes longer than next lunation 313 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 11 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 58 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠346.9°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠346.9°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠2.3°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of perigee on 30 March 2025 at 05:26 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 13 April 2025 at 22:48 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 393 353 km
Moon is 393 353 km (244 418 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 5 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 295 km (252 460 mi).
Moon before descending node
10 days after its ascending node on 28 March 2025 at 16:29 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 2 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 10 April 2025 at 19:56 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
10 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
4 days after previous North standstill on 3 April 2025 at 22:15 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.696°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.630° in the next southern standstill on 18 April 2025 at 13:24 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 4 days
After 4 days on 13 April 2025 at 00:22 in ♎ Libra, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.