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

Waxing Gibbous in Capricorn

Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 65% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 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 ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 19 September 2053 at 21:29.

Harvest Moon after 6 days

Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2053 after 6 days on 27 September 2053 at 21:50.

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 ∠1768"

Lunar disc appears visually 7.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1912".

Lunation 664 / 1617

The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 664 of Meeus index or 1617 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.47 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 18 minutes and it is 2 hours and 44 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 26 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 43 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠43.5°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠43.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠71.2°.

Moon at apogee

Moon is at apogee at 11:30 about 11 days since last perigee on 9 September 2053 at 15:22 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next perigee on 6 October 2053 at 10:09 in ♌ Leo.

Distance to Moon 404 434 km

This apogee Moon is 404 434 km (251 304 mi) away from Earth. It is 974 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 275 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.

Moon before descending node

9 days after ascending node on 12 September 2053 at 03:56 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 26 September 2053 at 11:14 in ♓ Pisces.

Moon after southern standstill

1 day since the last southern standstill on 20 September 2053 at 10:22 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.328° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.380° at the point of next northern standstill on 4 October 2053 at 08:58 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

9 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 6 days

In 6 days on 27 September 2053 at 21:50 in ♓ Pisces 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