Waxing
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 91% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 91% and growing larger. The 12 days young Moon is in ♌ Leo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 8 March 2052 at 01:17.
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 ♌ Leo
Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1868"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1868" and ∠1930".
Worm Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2052 after 2 days on 15 March 2052 at 09:54.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 15 March 2052 at 09:54
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 23 March 2052 at 14:09
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 30 March 2052 at 18:27
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 6 April 2052 at 09:28
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.
Lunation 645 / 1598
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 645 of Meeus index or 1598 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
Length of current 645 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 51 minutes. It is 1 hour and 57 minutes longer than next lunation 646 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 53 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 16 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠314.8°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠314.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠335.6°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before apogee
8 days after point of perigee on 4 March 2052 at 04:33 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 20 March 2052 at 04:36 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 383 756 km
Moon is 383 756 km (238 455 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 7 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 152 km (251 750 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after its descending node on 3 March 2052 at 14:47 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 4 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 16 March 2052 at 22:32 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
22 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
3 days after previous North standstill on 8 March 2052 at 14:56 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠18.384°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-18.333° in the next southern standstill on 22 March 2052 at 23:15 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 2 days
After 2 days on 15 March 2052 at 09:54 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.