Waxing
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
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 ♏ Scorpio.
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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 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 in ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠10° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1893".
Strawberry Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2034 after 2 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 12 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 at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 11:23. It is 12 days after previous perigee on 17 May 2034 at 14:28 in ♉ Taurus. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 15 days, until point of next perigee on 14 June 2034 at 21:42 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 406 002 km
This apogee Moon is 406 002 km (252 278 mi) away from Earth. It is 594 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 707 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
3 days after ascending node on 27 May 2034 at 04:57 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 10 June 2034 at 13:46 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
3 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 before southern standstill
10 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 4 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 2 days
In 2 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.
