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

Waxing Gibbous in Sagittarius

Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 65% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 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 in ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 28 August 2047 at 02:49.

Harvest Moon after 5 days

Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2047 after 5 days on 4 September 2047 at 08:54.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1947"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1947" and ∠1900".

Lunation 589 / 1542

The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 589 of Meeus index or 1542 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.39 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 15 minutes and it is 18 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit 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 3 hours and 29 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 40 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠306.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠306.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠329.2°.

Moon after perigee

4 days since point of perigee on 24 August 2047 at 23:21 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 9 September 2047 at 17:06 in ♉ Taurus.

Distance to Moon 368 180 km

The Moon is 368 180 km (228 776 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 975 km (251 640 mi).

Moon before ascending node

11 days after descending node on 18 August 2047 at 04:37 in ♋ Cancer 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 31 August 2047 at 00:29 in ♑ Capricorn.

Moon at southern standstill

At 04:16 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-25.179°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠25.055° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 12 September 2047 at 11:14.

Draconic month

25 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 5 days

In 5 days on 4 September 2047 at 08:54 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