Waxing
Gibbous ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 74% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 74% and growing larger. The 10 days young Moon is in ♎ Libra.
Moon phases for next 7 days
Sunday Sun
Monday Mon
Tuesday Tue
Wednesday Wed
Thursday Thu
Friday Fri
Saturday Sat
Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 24 May 2034 at 23:57.
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 is entering ♎ Libra
Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1790"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1790" and ∠1893".
Strawberry Moon after 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2034 after 5 days on 2 June 2034 at 03:54.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 2 June 2034 at 03:54
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 9 June 2034 at 19:44
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 16 June 2034 at 10:26
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 23 June 2034 at 14:35
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 425 / 1378
The Moon is 10 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 425 of Meeus index or 1378 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.3 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 13 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2034. It is 36 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 5 hours and 31 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 38 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠25.4°.
Moon before perigee
9 days after point of perigee on 17 May 2034 at 14:28 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 30 May 2034 at 11:23 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 400 516 km
The Moon is 400 516 km (248 869 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 002 km (252 278 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♎ Libra at 04:57 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 10 June 2034 at 13:46 in ♓ Pisces.
New draconic month
At 04:57 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before southern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 20 May 2034 at 06:51 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.340°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.405° at the point of next southern standstill on 3 June 2034 at 15:58 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 2 June 2034 at 03:54 in ♐ Sagittarius 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.
