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

Waxing Gibbous in Sagittarius

Waxing Gibbous on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 98% and growing larger. Lunar cycle is 13 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 ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

6 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 days on 21 June 2026 at 21:55.

Strawberry Moon after 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2026 after 1 day on 29 June 2026 at 23:57.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"

Lunar disc appears visually 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1887".

Lunation 327 / 1280

The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 327 of Meeus index or 1280 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.28 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 6 hours and 49 minutes and it is 1 hour and 4 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2026. 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 shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 55 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 14 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠2.5°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠2.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠18°.

Moon at apogee

Moon is at apogee at 07:11 about 13 days since last perigee on 14 June 2026 at 23:18 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next perigee on 13 July 2026 at 07:50 in ♋ Cancer.

Distance to Moon 406 267 km

This apogee Moon is 406 267 km (252 443 mi) away from Earth. It is 859 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 442 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.

Moon before ascending node

8 days after descending node on 19 June 2026 at 17:57 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 4 July 2026 at 07:51 in ♓ Pisces.

Moon at southern standstill

At 22:06 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-27.988°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.033° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 12 July 2026 at 15:18.

Draconic month

21 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 1 day

In 1 day on 29 June 2026 at 23:57 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.

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