Waxing
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 93% illuminated
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 ♍ Virgo.
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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 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 ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠10° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1954"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1954" and ∠1921".
Pink Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2045 after 2 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 12 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
Length of current 559 lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 12 minutes. It is 3 hours and 12 minutes longer than next lunation 560 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 28 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 35 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠238.6°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠238.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠274.3°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 29 March 2045 at 17:25 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 11 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 10 April 2045 at 13:48 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 366 844 km
Moon is 366 844 km (227 946 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 11 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 371 km (251 264 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after its descending node on 29 March 2045 at 22:04 in ♌ Leo, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 13 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 12 April 2045 at 18:23 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
13 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days after previous North standstill on 25 March 2045 at 07:00 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.089°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.012° in the next southern standstill on 7 April 2045 at 06:59 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 2 days
After 2 days on 1 April 2045 at 18:43 in ♎ Libra, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.