Waxing
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 65% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 65% and growing larger. The 9 days young Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 27 August 2028 at 01:36.
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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1863"
Lunar disc appears visually 2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1863" and ∠1900".
Harvest Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2028 after 6 days on 3 September 2028 at 23:48.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 3 September 2028 at 23:48
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 12 September 2028 at 00:46
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 18 September 2028 at 18:24
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 25 September 2028 at 13:10
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 354 / 1307
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 354 of Meeus index or 1307 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.32 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 40 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2028. It is 53 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the 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 4 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 5 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠347.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠347.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠2.9°.
Moon after perigee
7 days after point of perigee on 21 August 2028 at 04:10 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 4 September 2028 at 20:03 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 384 768 km
The Moon is 384 768 km (239 084 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 398 km (252 524 mi).
Moon before ascending node
10 days after descending node on 18 August 2028 at 02:04 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 30 August 2028 at 20:39 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
24 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 06:28 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-25.819°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠25.693° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 12 September 2028 at 01:18.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 3 September 2028 at 23:48 in ♓ Pisces 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.
