Waxing
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 88% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 88% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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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 2 April 2028 at 19:15.
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 ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠6° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1917".
Pink Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2028 after 2 days on 9 April 2028 at 10:27.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 9 April 2028 at 10:27
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 16 April 2028 at 16:37
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 24 April 2028 at 19:47
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 2 May 2028 at 02:26
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 349 / 1302
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 349 of Meeus index or 1302 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
Length of current 349 lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 16 minutes. It is 2 hours and 47 minutes longer than next lunation 350 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 32 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 31 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠212.1°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠212.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠243.3°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before perigee
14 days after point of apogee on 22 March 2028 at 23:24 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next perigee on 7 April 2028 at 16:02 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 363 331 km
Moon is 363 331 km (225 763 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next day until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 361 361 km (224 539 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after its descending node on 3 April 2028 at 22:08 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 10 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 16 April 2028 at 17:56 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
16 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days after previous North standstill on 1 April 2028 at 03:04 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠26.235°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-26.138° in the next southern standstill on 13 April 2028 at 18:51 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 2 days
After 2 days on 9 April 2028 at 10:27 in ♎ Libra, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.