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

Waxing Gibbous in Capricorn

Waxing Gibbous on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 98% and growing larger. Lunar cycle is 13 days young.

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.

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

6 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 days on 15 July 2051 at 23:21.

Buck Moon after 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2051 after 1 day on 23 July 2051 at 16:36.

Moderate tide

There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1859"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1859" and ∠1889".

Lunation 637 / 1590

The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 637 of Meeus index or 1590 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.46 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 56 minutes and it is 2 hours and 32 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 shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 48 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 21 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠70.2°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠70.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠104.1°.

Moon before perigee

6 days since point of apogee on 15 July 2051 at 16:49 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 28 July 2051 at 00:46 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 385 507 km

The Moon is 385 507 km (239 543 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 220 km (228 801 mi).

Moon after ascending node

6 days after ascending node on 16 July 2051 at 09:35 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 29 July 2051 at 18:33 in ♈ Aries.

Moon after southern standstill

1 day since the last southern standstill on 20 July 2051 at 20:52 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.133° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.057° at the point of next northern standstill on 2 August 2051 at 19:38 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

6 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 1 day

In 1 day on 23 July 2051 at 16:36 in ♑ Capricorn 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