Waxing
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase on 29 August 2039 Monday is Waxing Gibbous, 10 days young Moon is in Capricorn.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 78% and growing larger. The 10 days young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 26 August 2039 at 23:16.
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 passing about ∠9° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 3.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1965" and ∠1900".
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2039 after 4 days on 2 September 2039 at 19:23.
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.
The Moon is 10 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 490 of Meeus index or 1443 from Brown series.
Length of current 490 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 32 minutes. It is 46 minutes longer than next lunation 491 length.
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 12 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 57 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
This lunation true anomaly is ∠260.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠294.5°. 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 is reaching point of perigee on this date at 03:16, this is 15 days after last apogee on 13 August 2039 at 19:35 in ♊ Gemini. 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 10 September 2039 at 14:24 in ♊ Gemini.
This perigee Moon is 368 737 km (229 123 mi) away from Earth. It is 6 229 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 1 619 km farther than the closest perigee of 21st century.
1 day after its descending node on 28 August 2039 at 01:19 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 12 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 10 September 2039 at 13:18 in ♊ Gemini.
15 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
At 14:11 on this date the Moon is meeting its South standstill point, when it will reach southern declination of ∠-24.880°. Next 14 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite northward direction to face North declination of ∠24.993° in its northern standstill point on 12 September 2039 at 12:07 in ♋ Cancer.
After 4 days on 2 September 2039 at 19:23 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.