Waxing
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 85% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 85% and growing larger. The 11 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 14 June 2043 at 10:19.
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 ∠12° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1769"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1888".
Strawberry Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2043 after 4 days on 22 June 2043 at 14:20.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 22 June 2043 at 14:20
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 30 June 2043 at 02:53
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 6 July 2043 at 17:51
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 14 July 2043 at 01:47
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 537 / 1490
The Moon is 11 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 537 of Meeus index or 1490 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.3 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 16 minutes. It is 1 hour and 16 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 28 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 41 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠15.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠15.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠33.6°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 23:28. It is 12 days after previous perigee on 6 June 2043 at 11:59 in ♊ Gemini. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 16 days, until point of next perigee on 4 July 2043 at 16:08 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 405 646 km
This apogee Moon is 405 646 km (252 057 mi) away from Earth. It is 238 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 063 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
3 days after descending node on 15 June 2043 at 09:52 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 29 June 2043 at 18:46 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
15 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
10 days since the previous standstill on 8 June 2043 at 09:54 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.431°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.403° at the point of next southern standstill on 22 June 2043 at 14:03 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 22 June 2043 at 14:20 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.
