Waxing
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 86% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 86% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♌ Leo.
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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 26 March 2045 at 00:56.
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 ♌ Leo
Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1966"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1921".
Pink Moon after 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2045 after 3 days on 1 April 2045 at 18:43.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 1 April 2045 at 18:43
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 9 April 2045 at 07:52
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 17 April 2045 at 07:27
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 24 April 2045 at 07:12
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 559 / 1512
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 559 of Meeus index or 1512 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 12 minutes. It is 3 hours and 12 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 28 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 35 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠238.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠238.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠274.3°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 17:25. It is 15 days after previous apogee on 13 March 2045 at 18:23 in ♑ Capricorn. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 12 days, until point of next apogee on 10 April 2045 at 13:48 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 365 846 km
This perigee Moon is 365 846 km (227 326 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 338 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 4 510 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♌ Leo at 22:04 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 14 days later on 12 April 2045 at 18:23 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 25 March 2045 at 07:00 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.089°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.012° at the point of next southern standstill on 7 April 2045 at 06:59 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 1 April 2045 at 18:43 in ♎ Libra 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.
