Waxing
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
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 ♑ Capricorn.
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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 29 July 2047 at 22:03.
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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1918"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1918" and ∠1891".
Sturgeon Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2047 after 2 days on 5 August 2047 at 20:38.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 5 August 2047 at 20:38
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 13 August 2047 at 17:34
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 21 August 2047 at 09:16
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 28 August 2047 at 02:49
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 588 / 1541
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 588 of Meeus index or 1541 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.44 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 27 minutes. It is 1 hour 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 17 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 52 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠274.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠274.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠306.1°.
Moon after perigee
4 days after point of perigee on 30 July 2047 at 09:01 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 12 August 2047 at 22:38 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 373 641 km
The Moon is 373 641 km (232 170 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 274 km (251 204 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♑ Capricorn at 19:59 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 18 August 2047 at 04:37 in ♋ Cancer.
New draconic month
At 19:59 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 1 August 2047 at 22:27 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.317°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.256° at the point of next northern standstill on 16 August 2047 at 02:57 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 5 August 2047 at 20:38 in ♒ Aquarius 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.
