Waxing
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 77% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 77% and growing larger. The 10 days young Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 25 June 2042 at 11:29.
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 ∠10° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1780"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1780" and ∠1887".
Buck Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2042 after 4 days on 3 July 2042 at 08:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 3 July 2042 at 08:09
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 10 July 2042 at 05:38
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 17 July 2042 at 05:52
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 25 July 2042 at 05:01
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 525 / 1478
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 525 of Meeus index or 1478 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.42 days
Length of current 525 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 4 minutes. It is 2 hours and 5 minutes shorter than next lunation 526 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 40 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 29 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠57.3°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠57.3°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠88.8°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon after apogee
2 days after point of apogee on 26 June 2042 at 01:31 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 9 July 2042 at 07:47 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 402 749 km
Moon is 402 749 km (250 257 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 10 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 369 567 km (229 638 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after its descending node on 27 June 2042 at 04:23 in ♎ Libra, 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 July 2042 at 13:42 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
14 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
10 days after previous North standstill on 18 June 2042 at 08:35 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.070°. Next 4 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.069° in the next southern standstill on 2 July 2042 at 18:24 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 4 days
After 4 days on 3 July 2042 at 08:09 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.