Waxing
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 84% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 84% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 23 June 2034 at 14:35.
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 ∠19° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1887".
Buck Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2034 after 4 days on 1 July 2034 at 17:44.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 1 July 2034 at 17:44
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 9 July 2034 at 01:59
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 15 July 2034 at 18:15
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 23 July 2034 at 07:05
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 426 / 1379
The Moon is 11 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 426 of Meeus index or 1379 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.33 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 49 minutes. 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 55 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 14 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠25.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠25.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠45.9°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 00:19. It is 12 days after previous perigee on 14 June 2034 at 21:42 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 12 July 2034 at 19:35 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 405 126 km
This apogee Moon is 405 126 km (251 734 mi) away from Earth. It is 282 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 583 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
4 days after ascending node on 23 June 2034 at 06:36 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 7 July 2034 at 14:33 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
4 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, 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 16 June 2034 at 18:29 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.417°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.423° at the point of next southern standstill on 30 June 2034 at 23:50 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 1 July 2034 at 17:44 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.
