Waxing
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 94% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 94% and growing larger. The 12 days young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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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 18 March 2032 at 20:56.
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 ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠6° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1775"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1775" and ∠1924".
Worm Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2032 after 2 days on 27 March 2032 at 00:46.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 27 March 2032 at 00:46
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 3 April 2032 at 10:10
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 10 April 2032 at 02:39
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 17 April 2032 at 15:24
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 398 / 1351
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 398 of Meeus index or 1351 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 15 minutes. It is 41 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 2 hours and 29 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 40 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠23.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠23.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠44.4°.
Moon after apogee
2 days after point of apogee on 22 March 2032 at 08:27 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 7 April 2032 at 06:55 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 403 924 km
The Moon is 403 924 km (250 987 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 13 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 117 km (226 873 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after descending node on 15 March 2032 at 02:16 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 29 March 2032 at 15:09 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
21 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 18 March 2032 at 04:54 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.775°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.688° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 April 2032 at 17:12 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 27 March 2032 at 00:46 in ♎ Libra 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.
