Waxing
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 77% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 77% and growing larger. The 10 days young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 17 August 2048 at 00:32.
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 is entering ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1972"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1896".
Sturgeon Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2048 after 4 days on 23 August 2048 at 18:07.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 23 August 2048 at 18:07
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 31 August 2048 at 07:42
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 8 September 2048 at 06:24
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 15 September 2048 at 06:04
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 601 / 1554
The Moon is 10 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 601 of Meeus index or 1554 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.52 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 26 minutes. It is 1 hour and 5 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 18 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 51 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠240.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠240.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠276°.
Moon before apogee
14 days after point of apogee on 4 August 2048 at 17:05 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 20 August 2048 at 12:34 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 363 509 km
The Moon is 363 509 km (225 874 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 147 km (227 513 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 04:55 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 1 September 2048 at 16:14 in ♊ Gemini.
New draconic month
At 04:55 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 18 August 2048 at 16:40 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.557°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.449° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 September 2048 at 03:54 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 23 August 2048 at 18:07 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.
