Waxing
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 92% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 92% 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 4 June 2052 at 06:49.
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 ∠17° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1769"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1890".
Strawberry Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2052 after 2 days on 12 June 2052 at 10:27.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 12 June 2052 at 10:27
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 20 June 2052 at 03:10
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 26 June 2052 at 17:50
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 3 July 2052 at 20:59
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 648 / 1601
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 648 of Meeus index or 1601 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.29 days
Length of current 648 lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 1 minute. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2052. It is 41 minutes shorter than next lunation 649 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 44 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 25 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠7.2°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠7.2°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠23.2°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before apogee
12 days after point of perigee on 28 May 2052 at 00:39 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next apogee on 10 June 2052 at 00:46 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 405 197 km
Moon is 405 197 km (251 778 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next day until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 066 km (252 318 mi).
Moon after ascending node
2 days after its ascending node on 6 June 2052 at 13:15 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 11 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 20 June 2052 at 22:46 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
2 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
10 days after previous North standstill on 29 May 2052 at 16:35 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠18.475°. Next 3 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-18.514° in the next southern standstill on 12 June 2052 at 20:05 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 2 days
After 2 days on 12 June 2052 at 10:27 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.