Waxing Gibbous Moon
Waxing Gibbous MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waxing Gibbous in Pisces

Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 99% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 14 days young.

Moonrise and moonset

The 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 phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon is entering ♓ Pisces

Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.

7 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 7 days on 30 August 2044 at 09:18.

Harvest Moon after 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2044 after 1 day on 7 September 2044 at 11:24.

Moderate tide

There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1807"

Lunar disc appears visually 5.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1807" and ∠1904".

Lunation 552 / 1505

The Moon is 14 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 552 of Meeus index or 1505 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.41 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 57 minutes and it is 2 hours and 36 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit 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 2 hours and 47 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 22 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠34°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠34° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠57.9°.

Moon after apogee

4 days since point of apogee on 1 September 2044 at 20:26 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 17 September 2044 at 12:14 in ♌ Leo.

Distance to Moon 396 636 km

The Moon is 396 636 km (246 458 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 771 km (228 522 mi).

Moon before ascending node

13 days after descending node on 23 August 2044 at 18:33 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 7 September 2044 at 03:06 in ♓ Pisces.

Moon after southern standstill

5 days since the last southern standstill on 31 August 2044 at 23:59 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.478° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.463° at the point of next northern standstill on 14 September 2044 at 23:32 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 1 day

In 1 day on 7 September 2044 at 11:24 in ♓ Pisces 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov