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 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 ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 27 July 2050 at 01:05.

Sturgeon Moon after 3 days

Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2050 after 3 days on 3 August 2050 at 02:20.

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 ∠1886"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1886" and ∠1890".

Lunation 625 / 1578

The Moon is 11 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 625 of Meeus index or 1578 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.6 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 31 minutes and it is 1 hour and 31 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).

Lunation length longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 47 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 16 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠137°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠137° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠163.4°.

Moon before perigee

7 days since point of apogee on 22 July 2050 at 20:27 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 4 August 2050 at 05:06 in ♒ Aquarius.

Distance to Moon 380 140 km

The Moon is 380 140 km (236 208 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 975 km (223 057 mi).

Moon after ascending node

2 days after ascending node on 28 July 2050 at 02:39 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 9 August 2050 at 15:07 in ♉ Taurus.

Moon at southern standstill

At 14:00 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-20.346°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠20.265° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 12 August 2050 at 05:19.

Draconic month

2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 3 days

In 3 days on 3 August 2050 at 02:20 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