Waxing
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 67% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 67% and growing larger. The 9 days young Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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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 15 July 2032 at 18:32.
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 ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1850"
Lunar disc appears visually 2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1850" and ∠1888".
Buck Moon after 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2032 after 5 days on 22 July 2032 at 18:51.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 22 July 2032 at 18:51
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 29 July 2032 at 09:25
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 6 August 2032 at 05:11
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 14 August 2032 at 07:51
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 402 / 1355
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 402 of Meeus index or 1355 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.6 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 30 minutes. It is 1 hour and 15 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 46 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 17 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠140.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠140.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠166.3°.
Moon after apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 11 July 2032 at 07:50 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 July 2032 at 18:45 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 387 417 km
The Moon is 387 417 km (240 730 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 602 km (222 825 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 16 July 2032 at 18:15 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 29 July 2032 at 06:13 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 5 July 2032 at 14:56 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.659°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.579° at the point of next southern standstill on 20 July 2032 at 03:40 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 22 July 2032 at 18:51 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.
