Waxing
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 93% and growing larger. The 12 days young Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 14 July 2043 at 01:47.
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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Lunar disc appears visually 5.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1783" and ∠1888".
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2043 after 2 days on 22 July 2043 at 03:24.
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 12 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 538 of Meeus index or 1491 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 32 minutes. It is 2 hours and 23 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°).
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 12 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 57 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠33.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠57.1°.
2 days after point of apogee on 16 July 2043 at 14:34 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 1 August 2043 at 05:13 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 402 070 km (249 835 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 517 km (228 364 mi).
6 days after descending node on 12 July 2043 at 12:01 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 26 July 2043 at 19:43 in ♓ Pisces.
19 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
At 20:10 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.464°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.531° at the point of next standstill in ♋ Cancer on 2 August 2043 at 03:11.
In 2 days on 22 July 2043 at 03:24 in ♑ Capricorn 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.