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 79% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 10 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 ∠23° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 6 August 2049 at 17:52.

Sturgeon Moon after 3 days

Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2049 after 3 days on 13 August 2049 at 09:19.

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 ∠1951"

Lunar disc appears visually 3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1951" and ∠1893".

Lunation 613 / 1566

The Moon is 10 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 613 of Meeus index or 1566 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.63 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 11 minutes and it is 25 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 27 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 36 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠185.8°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠185.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠210.2°.

Moon before perigee

11 days since point of apogee on 29 July 2049 at 04:27 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 12 August 2049 at 17:06 in ♒ Aquarius.

Distance to Moon 367 325 km

The Moon is 367 325 km (228 245 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 750 km (222 296 mi).

Moon after ascending node

1 day after ascending node on 8 August 2049 at 08:48 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 20 August 2049 at 22:31 in ♉ Taurus.

Moon at southern standstill

At 04:55 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-21.891°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠21.800° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 22 August 2049 at 00:08.

Draconic month

1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 3 days

In 3 days on 13 August 2049 at 09:19 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.

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