Waxing
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 89% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 89% and growing larger. The 11 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 15 March 2027 at 16:25.
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 passing about ∠19° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1960"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1960" and ∠1927".
Worm Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2027 after 2 days on 22 March 2027 at 10:44.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 22 March 2027 at 10:44
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 30 March 2027 at 00:54
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 6 April 2027 at 23:51
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 13 April 2027 at 22:57
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.
Lunation 336 / 1289
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 336 of Meeus index or 1289 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.6 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 22 minutes. It is 3 hours and 15 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 38 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 25 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠242.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠242.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠278.5°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 04:31. It is 15 days after previous apogee on 3 March 2027 at 05:41 in ♑ Capricorn. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 11 days, until point of next apogee on 31 March 2027 at 01:33 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 366 440 km
This perigee Moon is 366 440 km (227 695 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 932 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 3 916 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♌ Leo at 13:05 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 13 days later on 2 April 2027 at 10:17 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 15 March 2027 at 14:15 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.611°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.526° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 March 2027 at 17:43 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 22 March 2027 at 10:44 in ♎ Libra 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.
