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Moon* ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 98% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 98% and growing larger. The 13 days young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 days on 2 July 2025 at 19:30.
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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1804"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1804" and ∠1887".
Buck Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2025 after 1 day on 10 July 2025 at 20:37.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 10 July 2025 at 20:37
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 18 July 2025 at 00:38
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 24 July 2025 at 19:11
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 1 August 2025 at 12:41
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 315 / 1268
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 315 of Meeus index or 1268 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.36 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 40 minutes. It is 2 hours and 15 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 4 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 5 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠36.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠36.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠60.5°.
Moon after apogee
4 days after point of apogee on 5 July 2025 at 02:29 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 20 July 2025 at 13:52 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 397 293 km
The Moon is 397 293 km (246 866 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 047 km (228 694 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after descending node on 1 July 2025 at 03:46 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 15 July 2025 at 10:42 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
21 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 06:03 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.423°. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.474° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 22 July 2025 at 09:43.
Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 10 July 2025 at 20:37 in ♑ Capricorn 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.
