Waxing
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 91% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 91% and growing larger. The 12 days young Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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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 10 June 2038 at 11:11.
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 ∠18° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1967"
Lunar disc appears visually 4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1967" and ∠1889".
Strawberry Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2038 after 2 days on 17 June 2038 at 02:30.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 17 June 2038 at 02:30
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 24 June 2038 at 12:39
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 2 July 2038 at 13:32
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 9 July 2038 at 16:00
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 475 / 1428
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 475 of Meeus index or 1428 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.55 days
Length of current 475 lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 8 minutes. It is 2 hours longer than next lunation 476 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 24 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 6 hours and 39 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠226°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠226°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠259.5°. 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 in perigee
Moon is reaching point of perigee on this date at 15:26, this is 15 days after last apogee on 29 May 2038 at 20:16 in ♈ Aries. Lunar orbit is starting to get wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth for 12 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next apogee on 26 June 2038 at 12:55 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 363 752 km
This perigee Moon is 363 752 km (226 025 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 244 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 6 604 km farther than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
9 days after its ascending node on 5 June 2038 at 06:06 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 18 June 2038 at 02:42 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
9 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
9 days after previous North standstill on 5 June 2038 at 09:24 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠23.031°. Next 3 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-23.039° in the next southern standstill on 18 June 2038 at 05:58 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 2 days
After 2 days on 17 June 2038 at 02:30 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.