Waxing
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 91% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 91% and growing larger. The 12 days young Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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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 8 July 2030 at 11:02.
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 ∠14° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1972"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1887".
Buck Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2030 after 2 days on 15 July 2030 at 02:12.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 15 July 2030 at 02:12
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 22 July 2030 at 08:07
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 30 July 2030 at 11:11
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 6 August 2030 at 16:43
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 377 / 1330
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 377 of Meeus index or 1330 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.57 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 37 minutes. It is 1 hour and 41 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 52 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 10 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠213.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠213.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠244.5°.
Moon before apogee
14 days after point of apogee on 27 June 2030 at 14:14 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 13 July 2030 at 05:12 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 363 550 km
The Moon is 363 550 km (225 899 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 792 km (224 807 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 14:42 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 26 July 2030 at 05:01 in ♊ Gemini.
New draconic month
At 14:42 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon at southern standstill
At 17:53 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-22.706°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠22.659° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 26 July 2030 at 10:14.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 15 July 2030 at 02:12 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.
