Waxing
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 95% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 95% and growing larger. The 12 days young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 18 July 2029 at 14:14.
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 ∠5° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1906"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1906" and ∠1889".
Buck Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2029 after 2 days on 25 July 2029 at 13:36.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 25 July 2029 at 13:36
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 2 August 2029 at 11:15
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 10 August 2029 at 01:56
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 16 August 2029 at 18:55
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 365 / 1318
The Moon is 12 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 365 of Meeus index or 1318 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.42 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 5 minutes. It is 1 hour and 16 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 2 hours and 39 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 30 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠279.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠279.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠309.2°.
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 18 July 2029 at 11:25 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 1 August 2029 at 10:42 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 375 979 km
The Moon is 375 979 km (233 623 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 310 km (251 227 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♑ Capricorn at 11:12 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 6 August 2029 at 20:21 in ♊ Gemini.
New draconic month
At 11:12 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 22 July 2029 at 07:07 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.380°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.323° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 August 2029 at 14:53 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 25 July 2029 at 13:36 in ♑ Capricorn 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.
