Waxing
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 79% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 79% and growing larger. The 10 days young Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 9 July 2057 at 18:37.
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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1962"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1962" and ∠1888".
Buck Moon after 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2057 after 3 days on 16 July 2057 at 09:28.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 16 July 2057 at 09:28
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 23 July 2057 at 10:09
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 31 July 2057 at 14:32
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 8 August 2057 at 01:30
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 711 / 1664
The Moon is 10 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 711 of Meeus index or 1664 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.61 days
Length of current 711 lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 45 minutes. It is 1 hour and 22 minutes longer than next lunation 712 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 2 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠196.2°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠196.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠222.5°. 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 perigee
12 days after point of apogee on 30 June 2057 at 05:32 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 2 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 15 July 2057 at 07:01 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 365 399 km
Moon is 365 399 km (227 048 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 2 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 359 100 km (223 134 mi).
Moon before descending node
11 days after its ascending node on 1 July 2057 at 09:00 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 14 July 2057 at 23:47 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
11 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
10 days after previous North standstill on 2 July 2057 at 02:54 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠23.700°. Next 3 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-23.701° in the next southern standstill on 15 July 2057 at 13:52 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 3 days
After 3 days on 16 July 2057 at 09:28 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.