Waxing
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase on 4 July 2047 Thursday is Waxing Gibbous, 11 days young Moon is in Sagittarius.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 89% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 30 June 2047 at 17:37.
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 passing first ∠3° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 3.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1962" and ∠1887".
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2047 after 2 days on 7 July 2047 at 10:33.
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 11 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 587 of Meeus index or 1540 from Brown series.
Length of current 587 lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 13 minutes. It is 1 hour and 46 minutes longer than next lunation 588 length.
Length of current synodic month is 31 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 38 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
This lunation true anomaly is ∠240°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠274.9°. 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 is reaching point of perigee on this date at 04:56, this is 15 days after last apogee on 18 June 2047 at 10:22 in ♉ Taurus. Lunar orbit is starting to get wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth for 11 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next apogee on 16 July 2047 at 03:57 in ♉ Taurus.
This perigee Moon is 365 988 km (227 414 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 480 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 4 368 km farther than the closest perigee of 21st century.
9 days after its descending node on 24 June 2047 at 13:16 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 2 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 7 July 2047 at 11:43 in ♑ Capricorn.
24 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
12 days after previous North standstill on 22 June 2047 at 10:35 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠25.328°. Next day the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-25.343° in the next southern standstill on 5 July 2047 at 15:10 in ♐ Sagittarius.
After 2 days on 7 July 2047 at 10:33 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.