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

Waxing Gibbous in Aquarius

Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 83% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 11 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 ♒ Aquarius

Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.

3 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 4 October 2049 at 09:39.

Hunter Moon after 3 days

Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2049 after 3 days on 11 October 2049 at 02:53.

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 ∠1968"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1968" and ∠1920".

Lunation 615 / 1568

The Moon is 11 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 615 of Meeus index or 1568 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.59 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 10 minutes and it is 49 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 1 hour and 26 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 37 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠241.4°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠241.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠278.3°.

Moon at perigee

Moon is at perigee at 21:10 about 15 days since last apogee on 22 September 2049 at 00:05 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 19 October 2049 at 18:32 in ♌ Leo.

Distance to Moon 366 276 km

This perigee Moon is 366 276 km (227 593 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 768 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 4 080 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.

Moon after ascending node

6 days after ascending node on 1 October 2049 at 11:18 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 14 October 2049 at 06:20 in ♊ Gemini.

Moon after southern standstill

4 days since the last southern standstill on 2 October 2049 at 17:46 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.422° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.344° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 October 2049 at 15:55 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

6 days 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 11 October 2049 at 02:53 in ♈ Aries 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