Waxing
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 71% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 71% and growing larger. The 9 days young Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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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 20 June 2037 at 13:45.
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 ♎ Libra
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♏ Scorpio later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1950"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1950" and ∠1888".
Strawberry Moon after 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2037 after 5 days on 27 June 2037 at 15:20.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 27 June 2037 at 15:20
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 5 July 2037 at 16:00
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 13 July 2037 at 02:32
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 19 July 2037 at 18:31
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 463 / 1416
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 463 of Meeus index or 1416 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.39 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 22 minutes. It is 1 hour and 12 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 23 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 47 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠292.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠292.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠318.7°.
Moon after perigee
3 days after point of perigee on 18 June 2037 at 16:37 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 3 July 2037 at 19:50 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 367 524 km
The Moon is 367 524 km (228 369 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 478 km (251 331 mi).
Moon after ascending node
6 days after ascending node on 16 June 2037 at 07:41 in ♋ Cancer. 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 29 June 2037 at 10:01 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
6 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 15 June 2037 at 01:37 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.359°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.369° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 June 2037 at 01:35 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 27 June 2037 at 15:20 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.
