Waxing
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 90% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 90% and growing larger. The 12 days young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 18 August 2037 at 01:00.
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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1820"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1820" and ∠1897".
Sturgeon Moon after 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2037 after 3 days on 25 August 2037 at 19:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 25 August 2037 at 19:09
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 2 September 2037 at 22:03
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 9 September 2037 at 18:25
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 16 September 2037 at 10:36
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 465 / 1418
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 465 of Meeus index or 1418 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.32 days
Length of current 465 lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 44 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2037. It is 25 minutes shorter than next lunation 466 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 9 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠338.4°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠338.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠354.5°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of perigee on 12 August 2037 at 17:37 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 28 August 2037 at 00:28 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 393 737 km
Moon is 393 737 km (244 657 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 5 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 214 km (252 410 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♑ Capricorn at 23:10 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from North to South. Moon will follow the southern part of its orbit for the next 14 days to meet ascending node on 6 September 2037 at 10:34 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
12 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is moving from the middle to the last part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day after previous South standstill on 21 August 2037 at 14:16 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-21.390°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠21.473° in the next northern standstill on 5 September 2037 at 06:20 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 3 days
After 3 days on 25 August 2037 at 19:09 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.