Waxing
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 95% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 95% and growing larger. The 12 days young Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 17 May 2051 at 13:29.
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 in ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1776"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1776" and ∠1895".
Flower Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2051 after 2 days on 25 May 2051 at 17:35.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 25 May 2051 at 17:35
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 2 June 2051 at 02:15
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 8 June 2051 at 18:56
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 16 June 2051 at 05:55
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 635 / 1588
The Moon is 12 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 635 of Meeus index or 1588 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.35 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 27 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2051. It is 46 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 17 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 52 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠23.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠23.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠43.2°.
Moon after apogee
2 days after point of apogee on 21 May 2051 at 04:56 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 June 2051 at 01:20 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 403 644 km
The Moon is 403 644 km (250 813 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 13 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 806 km (226 680 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♏ Scorpio at 02:03 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 5 June 2051 at 14:37 in ♈ Aries.
New draconic month
At 02:03 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before southern standstill
10 days since the previous standstill on 12 May 2051 at 15:20 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.181°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.213° at the point of next southern standstill on 27 May 2051 at 03:09 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 25 May 2051 at 17:35 in ♏ Scorpio 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.
