Waxing
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 82% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 82% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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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 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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1820"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1820" and ∠1901".
Harvest Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2028 after 4 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 11 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 before perigee
9 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 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 4 September 2028 at 20:03 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 393 880 km
The Moon is 393 880 km (244 746 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 398 km (252 524 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♑ Capricorn at 20:39 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 14 September 2028 at 09:06 in ♋ Cancer.
New draconic month
At 20:39 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 28 August 2028 at 06:28 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.819°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.693° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 September 2028 at 01:18 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 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.
