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 ♎ Libra.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 2 June 2044 at 18:33.
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 ♎ Libra
Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1839"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1839" and ∠1891".
Strawberry Moon after 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2044 after 5 days on 10 June 2044 at 15:16.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 10 June 2044 at 15:16
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 18 June 2044 at 17:00
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 25 June 2044 at 10:24
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 2 July 2044 at 04:48
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 549 / 1502
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 549 of Meeus index or 1502 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.28 days
Length of current 549 lunation is 29 days, 6 hours and 45 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2044. It is 1 minute shorter than next lunation 550 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 59 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 10 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠345.6°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠345.6°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠0.7°. 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 before apogee
8 days after point of perigee on 28 May 2044 at 00:15 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 11 June 2044 at 18:31 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 389 656 km
Moon is 389 656 km (242 121 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 6 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 330 km (252 482 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after its descending node on 3 June 2044 at 00:16 in ♍ Virgo, 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 17 June 2044 at 14:53 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
14 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
7 days after previous North standstill on 28 May 2044 at 13:39 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.322°. Next 5 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.277° in the next southern standstill on 11 June 2044 at 06:08 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 5 days
After 5 days on 10 June 2044 at 15:16 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.