Waxing
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 92% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 92% and growing larger. The 12 days young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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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 23 July 2034 at 07:05.
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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1796"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1796" and ∠1890".
Buck Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2034 after 2 days on 31 July 2034 at 05:54.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 31 July 2034 at 05:54
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 7 August 2034 at 06:50
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 14 August 2034 at 03:53
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 22 August 2034 at 00:43
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 427 / 1380
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 427 of Meeus index or 1380 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.4 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 38 minutes. It is 2 hours and 43 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 3 hours and 6 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 3 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠45.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠45.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠73.9°.
Moon after apogee
3 days after point of apogee on 24 July 2034 at 17:20 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 8 August 2034 at 08:24 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 399 165 km
The Moon is 399 165 km (248 030 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 503 km (229 599 mi).
Moon before descending node
8 days after ascending node on 20 July 2034 at 09:54 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 3 August 2034 at 16:44 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
8 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 at southern standstill
At 08:38 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-18.336°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠18.276° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 10 August 2034 at 13:32.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 31 July 2034 at 05:54 in ♒ Aquarius 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.
