Waxing
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 64% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 64% and growing larger. The 9 days young Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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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 2 September 2033 at 02:24.
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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1843"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1843" and ∠1903".
Harvest Moon after 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2033 after 5 days on 9 September 2033 at 02:20.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 9 September 2033 at 02:20
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 15 September 2033 at 17:34
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 23 September 2033 at 13:40
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 1 October 2033 at 16:33
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 416 / 1369
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 416 of Meeus index or 1369 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.67 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 1 minute. It is 1 hour and 49 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 3 hours and 16 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 47 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 ∠166.6°.
Moon after apogee
5 days after point of apogee on 28 August 2033 at 15:27 in ♎ Libra. 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 10 September 2033 at 01:49 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 388 819 km
The Moon is 388 819 km (241 601 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 590 km (222 817 mi).
Moon after ascending node
6 days after ascending node on 28 August 2033 at 07:12 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 10 September 2033 at 19:07 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
6 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 09:54 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-18.364°. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠18.313° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 15 September 2033 at 23:39.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 9 September 2033 at 02:20 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.
