Waxing
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 69% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 69% and growing larger. The 9 days young Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 21 July 2026 at 11:06.
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 ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1781"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1781" and ∠1889".
Buck Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2026 after 6 days on 29 July 2026 at 14:36.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 29 July 2026 at 14:36
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 6 August 2026 at 02:21
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 12 August 2026 at 17:37
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 20 August 2026 at 02:46
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 328 / 1281
The Moon is 9 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 328 of Meeus index or 1281 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.33 days
Length of current 328 lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 53 minutes. It is 1 hour and 57 minutes shorter than next lunation 329 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 51 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 18 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠18°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠18°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠36.5°. 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
10 days after point of perigee on 13 July 2026 at 07:50 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 2 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 25 July 2026 at 16:45 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 402 418 km
Moon is 402 418 km (250 051 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 2 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 549 km (251 996 mi).
Moon after descending node
6 days after its descending node on 17 July 2026 at 00:27 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 7 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 31 July 2026 at 11:54 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
19 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
10 days after previous North standstill on 12 July 2026 at 15:18 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.033°. Next 2 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.067° in the next southern standstill on 26 July 2026 at 03:56 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 6 days
After 6 days on 29 July 2026 at 14:36 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.