Waxing
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 86% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 86% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 19 July 2056 at 23:45.
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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1956"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1956" and ∠1889".
Buck Moon after 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2056 after 3 days on 26 July 2056 at 18:54.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 26 July 2056 at 18:54
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 3 August 2056 at 11:52
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 11 August 2056 at 07:48
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 18 August 2056 at 04:13
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 699 / 1652
The Moon is 11 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 699 of Meeus index or 1652 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.48 days
Length of current 699 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 28 minutes. It is 1 hour and 29 minutes longer than next lunation 700 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 16 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 53 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠255.1°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠255.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠289.7°. 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 after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 22 July 2056 at 11:47 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 11 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 3 August 2056 at 19:11 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 366 537 km
Moon is 366 537 km (227 756 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 11 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 218 km (251 169 mi).
Moon before descending node
10 days after its ascending node on 12 July 2056 at 21:09 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 2 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 25 July 2056 at 20:38 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
10 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days after previous North standstill on 12 July 2056 at 03:18 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠22.004°. Next day the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-22.000° in the next southern standstill on 25 July 2056 at 04:24 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 3 days
After 3 days on 26 July 2056 at 18:54 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.