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Moon ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 97% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 97% and growing larger. The 13 days young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 28 July 2028 at 17:40.
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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠21° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1811"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1811" and ∠1891".
Sturgeon Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2028 after 1 day on 5 August 2028 at 08:10.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 5 August 2028 at 08:10
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 13 August 2028 at 11:45
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 20 August 2028 at 10:44
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 27 August 2028 at 01:36
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 353 / 1306
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 353 of Meeus index or 1306 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.32 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 42 minutes. It is 2 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 2 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 7 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠330.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠330.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠347.7°.
Moon before perigee
10 days after point of perigee on 23 July 2028 at 22:14 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 8 August 2028 at 12:54 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 395 748 km
The Moon is 395 748 km (245 906 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 894 km (252 211 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♑ Capricorn at 16:20 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 18 August 2028 at 02:04 in ♋ Cancer.
New draconic month
At 16:20 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 1 August 2028 at 00:38 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.931°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.876° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 August 2028 at 17:21 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 5 August 2028 at 08:10 in ♒ Aquarius 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.
