Waxing
Gibbous ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 85% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 85% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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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 4 May 2025 at 13:52.
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 is entering ♎ Libra
Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1783"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1783" and ∠1901".
Flower Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2025 after 4 days on 12 May 2025 at 16:56.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 12 May 2025 at 16:56
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 20 May 2025 at 11:59
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 27 May 2025 at 03:02
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 3 June 2025 at 03:41
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 313 / 1266
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 313 of Meeus index or 1266 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.31 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 31 minutes. It is 2 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 13 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 56 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠2.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠2.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠17.8°.
Moon before perigee
10 days after point of perigee on 27 April 2025 at 16:15 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 11 May 2025 at 00:49 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 401 969 km
The Moon is 401 969 km (249 772 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 245 km (252 429 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 7 May 2025 at 23:44 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 13 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 22 May 2025 at 08:05 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 1 May 2025 at 06:35 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.573°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.484° at the point of next southern standstill on 15 May 2025 at 18:44 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 12 May 2025 at 16:56 in ♏ Scorpio 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.
